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Very detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world: Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena, as well as S. Africa, Malaysia and Singapore, and Indonesia. Very informative, full of tips, history, what it was like to visit and stay there, indexed by country. Visit my webpage for this and other downloadable travelogues: http://www.tcp.com/~lgreenf
These are fascinating islands. Tristan has only 238 people, all with same 7 last names.
Remotest Islands in World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S Africa Malaysia, More
Larry2006-05-27 03:40:04
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elaborate, but my two favorites were simple yet effective: a man
entered holding only a pint of beer and walked up to the Governor to give it
to him (which he drank), calling it "The Governor's Cup" -- and the other
(which received huge laughs from everyone who knew about the Governor's Cup
reception scandal) was a British family of 4 walking in under just a large
white sheet labelled as "HMS Customs."
With the parade of costumes over at 10:30pm and the dance set to begin, I
walked upstairs to the sun lounge to finish "Day of the Jackel" on the 16:9
TV there (with only about 3 other people in the room, it was nice and
quiet).
Jan. 16: RMS
Though a bit cloudy this morning, I went out to lie down after breakfast,
with Pat/UK joining me. While relaxing, Michael "Cook" (the Saint catering
head) came up to talk to me: a few days ago I had asked him about the
possibility of taking a galley tour, and while it's not one of the ship's
normal tours (he asked me not to tell other passengers about it due to there
being limited space and time in the galley), said one could probably be
arranged. At lunch yesterday he informed me the tour would be 2:00pm today,
but coming up to me this morning, said it now needed to be moved to 10:30am
tomorrow -- a shame, as with today looking to be quite boring again, I was
really looking forward to it. In passing, Michael told me that there were
14 people on this current leg who would be continuing onto Tristan
(including myself), and that there would be about 80 more joining us in Cape
Town... at first I was surprised, figuring that the voyage would be
completely sold out (as it had to be scrapped last year), though I didn't
take into account people booking large cabins just for themselves -- and in
the end, every cabin was indeed sold out. Michael mentioned that the last
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
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Malaysia Gallery
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Saint Helena Gallery
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Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
