To quote Chris: ‘Well, it was an adventure’.  These are Warrell Words – rose-tinted restraint, laced with courage capsules.  The cocktail?  Take a 3 metre cross swell; add a sprinkle of rain squalls; mix in 25 knots on a tight reach; throw in a water-maker hiccup, and then stir with […]

Take 50% African, 40% European, and 10% native American.  Mix for 500 years.  Add an endless procession of religious orders, throw in oppressive colonisers, and somewhere out the other end pops Carnaval – a mere 4 million people, one-week long street party in a city with a population of 3 […]

Rehab or relapse? Or both?  All is revealed….  Turn up the music for this one! The story continues… Cup (crowd surfer supreme) is popping in to Salvador for Carnivale, and then Chris, Wayne and the Capt. will cross the equator, bound for the Caribbean.  Sacrifices to Neptune mandatory*. * to quote Wikipedia: During […]

I thought Arnhem Land was remote, but this place is something else.  Physically grand and forbidding, St Helena carries its history on its sleeve. Jamestown turns out to be an English-style village sitting in a narrow green valley dwarfed by the barren, almost vertical cliffs each side.  Someone forgot to […]

HOW IT ALL STARTED – NEW YEARS DAY…. 9:00 am, in the lounge: Let’s celebrate! Start of the great Atlantic adventure, etc. Glass of bubbly? Another? 11:00 am, on the plane: Glass of Champagne before take-off, sir? Why certainly! A little top up sir? 11:30 am: Your pre-lunch drink order […]