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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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After breakfast (served by Jackie,
the waitress for the table I normally ate breakfast and lunch at), I went
upstairs to re-pack, throwing some items away and giving others to Nigel (in
case anyone else might need them). Calling my dad for a few seconds from
the satellite phone, I also picked up a photocopy of the 1960s National
Geographic article on Tristan to read.
At 10:00am I went to watch Warham's lecture on St. Helena history (nice,
but I had seen just about everything he talked about already)... and at
11:00am it was time for cricket (played out on the sun deck by the pool with
a normal bat and the same rope balls used for skittles). Over the past two
years I've asked people to explain the game of cricket to me on numerous
occasions, but have never once understood their response (probably because
people have tried to explain it using cricket jargon -- but if you don't
know what a wicket is, how can you understand the explanation?) Memories of
me asking everyone from Kevin and Cel to some white store clerks in Outjo
Namibia came back, as I once again asked people the general outline of the
game only to be bombarded with a plethora of unknown cricket terminology.
Finally asking the Governor for help (telling him I was a cricket-stupid
American), he was the first person able to explain the game to me in a way I
could actually understand... so I had my first shot at playing ship's
cricket today (obviously a bit different from real cricket -- we couldn't
exactly keep it going for 5 days, you know). Having never even held a
cricket bat before, I asked the Governor to take a picture of me... but the
bowler hit the wicket before the Governor even had a chance to take my
picture. He was able to score because I had been standing in the wrong
place though, so the Captain said "ah, he's American... give him another
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Saint Helena Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
