The return to blog life...

And so I'm back! 7 years, 4 months and 7 days since my last post, and multiple tours-of-duty later I finally manage to get to my blog. A LOT of water has passed by under the bridge.

Watched friends get married, have kids, move house, take new jobs even. Have had a lot of travelling while sailing too. Was lucky to get onboard a container feeder vessel doing the U.S. east coast and the Caribbean which allowed me to explore quite a bit of the much touted Carib culture. Another time I'd been ashore in Brasil for close to a fortnight waiting for my ship to berth so I could get on it. Had my ship involved in a collision with another on one occassion and on another occassion a different ship I was on had a grounding incident while exiting a river passage. Seven years is a long time with a plethora of tales. Let's see what I can put down from here on.

Currently I've been ashore for an extended period of time trying to clear my exams and get my next higher license. And given the amount of time I've had on my hands I can only attribute it to sheer laziness that I haven't gotten back to this blog.

Time and tide wait for no man, so here's to trying to get this blog back up and running.

In the words of the ever immortal Cap'n Jack Sparrow... 'Now - bring me that horizon'.

Finally back here again!

10 months later and here I am...
Another ship, another trip round the world, different countries and new experiences.
Now ain't that something...
Came back on the 10th of October. Since then I've been busy literally travelling about.
Ain't complaining though. Does help keep the mind occupied.
Let's see... and short introduction on where I've been the last few months...

Signing-on flights: Goa - Mumbai - Dubai/Fujairah

Ship: Fujairah - Goa(yeah I went home within 10 days!!!) - Singapore - Lanshan(China) - Adang Bay(Indonesia) - Pagbilao(Philippines) - Battangas(Philippines) - Haypoint(Australia) - Cosipa, Santos(Brasil) - Tubarao(Brasil) - Hamburg(Germany) - Murmansk(Russia) - Port Bury, Wales(U.K.) - Kamsar(Guinea) - Las Palmas(Spain) - San Ciprian(Spain) - Tubarao(Brasil) - Point Lisas(Trinidad & Tobago)

Signing-off flights: Port-of-Spain(Trinidad & Tobago) - Caracas(Venezuela) - Charles-de-Gaulle(France) - Mumbai - Goa

Phew! Over 7 months on-board Giovanni Della Gatta and half that time under a not-so-pleasant Italian captain can be a very very long time.

Since I've been back, I've spent the first weekend at home. The next weekend in Bangalore, the next at home and the one after that was spent on meeting friends as it was the Diwali weekend and people were coming down for the extended weekend. Since then, last weekend I was in Pune and this coming weekend might in all probability see me in Delhi with the next 2 weekends seeing me in Kerala. And I say I get bored! Jeez! Talk about making EVERY TRIP planned at the last moment!
But there's always a fun element in a last moment put-together trip huh?

Whaddya say?