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[JimH]

Sailing on the North Sea, with time off for good behavior.

It's the Driehoek Nordsee (North Sea Triangle) that I think I survived.  Two weeks, about 1400 statute miles of sailing.  There is a day missing because I was seasick.

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/2003/northsea/index.html

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/2003/paris

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/2003/paris2

Listening to: 'Holiday Mambo' from 'Mambo Mucho Mambo' by 'Machito & His AfroCuban Orchestra' on Media Center 9.1

[MachineHead]

On home soil yet?

[JimH]

Happily, I am, slapping mosquitoes again.

[MachineHead]

You too, huh? I think they should have an open season on them. Flamethrowers encouraged...just watch out for the roses.

[nila]

Woah,

thats a LOT of photos and it's late here and I'm on dial up.


I'll look at them on Monday when I'm back on broadband in the office. Should be nice.

Gotta say though - I'm heart broken, it looks lilke you sailed around england and didn't drop in -how could you

Should be fun to check out!!

[JimH]

If you have MC set to play WAV files, this link should work:

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/pavel/030708009.WAV

It's a recording I made (with a PDA) of two gypsy musicians from Romania.  They were playing in front of small cafes where Boulevard St. Michel meets the Seine.

They are the first two guys pictured here:

www.jriver.com/~jriver/2003/paris2/

I went to the same place on three days to record them.  The piece they play in the beginning is something they said came from a film called "Shatra" or "Chartre" or something like that.  They spoke almost no French or English, but we did have a couple of beers together outside the grocery store on the third day.  The accordianist could open a beer bottle with another one, and each time he did, he smiled and said, "specialist".

[ashawley]

You sir, have entirely too much fun!  

(Sailing I mean, not the swatting mosquito bit).

Adam(S)

[JeffB]

Thank You, Jim.
Beautiful http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/2003/norway/DSC00710.JPG is my new desktop.

[zevele10]

Listening to: '030708009' on Media Center 9.0

You may try to do it more often when traveling.
I want to convert it in any format and put pictures of the musicians as SlideShow.

Look like you had great time-
Maintenant ,de retour au travail !

[JimH]

Zev,  
I agree.  It was fun to do.  In Lerwick, we met a Dutch couple, Aud and Hella, who had sailed the same 500 miles from Amsterdam that we did, but they were going on another 1200 miles to Spitzbergen, north of Norway.

They are both excellent sailors, having sailed around the world and even to Antarctica.  Aud loves to talk, and I recorded part of the conversation:

www.jriver.com/~jriver/misc/aud/030624000.WAV

The pictures are on this page:

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/2003/northsea/lerwick/

The ones numbered from 534 to 564 are from the day of the conversation and the following day.  There is one stray picture in the middle -- 549 is our boat with all our stuff hung out to dry.

Here's a picture of their boat, the Helena Cristina.

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/misc/aud/DSC05610.JPG