Holidays - where´ve you been, where´re you going ?

**Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:06 am**

The Duke of Ingmar wrote:We´ve changed our minds and decided to go to Sardinia for a week in late February. Anyone ever been there to give us some advice what to do, where to go etc. ? Cheers.

I've been to Sardinia, but it was only a 2 day stop en route to France in a very old wooden sailing ship (the ship on my avatar actually, Anna Kristina). But I liked what I saw on the way to buy food supplies, and the view from the ship as we sailed in and out was awesome. Hope you have a great time Duke.

**Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:25 pm**

jennylois wrote:a very old wooden sailing ship (the ship on my avatar actually, Anna Kristina).

That looks so lovely that I had to google it. The ship is still sailing, apparently, perhaps one day I will manage to go along. Sounds wonderful, Jenny.
http://www.dyrafjeld.no/dyrafjeld2.pdf

**Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:18 pm**

Ah, you feel the romance of sail and the sense of impending adventure. You will do it Christine. You will feel the ship lurch beneath your feet, the smell of salt and tarred marlin in your nostrils. And the smell of blood from many large fish on the deck even though you try to scrub and scrub it away. And the stinky bilge water. You will sleep (or pass out) in your airless slot in the wall, or if it's too hot to sleep below deck you will sleep on deck with the wind roaring through the sails above you and flying fish plopping on the deck alongside you which you can collect later for breakfast. You will be woken for your watch after only 4 hours sleep. Every day, 4 hours on, 4 hours off. On a quiet night you may hear a snorting noise over the side of the ship which you are certain is some sort of two headed sea monster. You will struggle with the wheel as the swell tosses the ship this way and that, and when your hour or so is done at the wheel, you won't want to give it up as you have mastered the pattern of the swell. And when it is your turn to cook, you will struggle in the galley with the constant lurching, cupboards flinging open and the contents of saucepans slopping out even if the pans are secured to the stove top. You will be terrified, scared to the core when you are woken in the dark of night to the sound of 'all hands on deck' as you face a storm, struggling up on deck in the screeching wind and stinging rain to shorten sail, to do whatever is asked of you and then sit huddled with the rest of the crew at the stern to wait it out. You'll be exhausted some days when there is much sail changing to be done because it is required or because the captain decides you need the practice, but through all the exhaustion you will feel wonderful because your trip will be the very best thing you've ever done in your life.

**Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:04 pm**

it seems that I am currently stuck in Thailand.

**Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:15 pm**

Oh dear....in a hotel or at the airport? Keep safe.

**Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:06 pm**

I just heard on the radio that the army is going to use violence to clear the airport. Keep safe!

**Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:53 am**

jennylois wrote:Oh dear....in a hotel or at the airport? Keep safe.

We are currently in Khao Lak, but should be going to Bangkok tomorrow. We are safe but do not know really what will happen next....

**Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:28 am**

Still stuck. Nothing moves. Our flight from Surat Thani to Bangkok tomorrow will not go, I guess, so we decided to stay in Khao Lak, trying to book on a flight from Phuket or to go to Bangkok when things are back to normal.

Hell, this sucks.

But at least we're safe in the moment.

**Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:41 am**

Good luck, Eckhard. Keep safe.

**Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:25 am**

Sounds scary, Eckhard, please let us know how you're getting on. Best of luck.

**Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:26 pm**

In the moment all we can do is just wait for the best. We're safe. Situation in Khao Lak is absolutely normal. The Thais seem to start to get pissed because of the occupation though. The told us that those people who occupy the airport are members of Thailands upper class wanting to protect their old privileges from a government that has been elected by the vast majority of the Thai people. Many if not most of them depend on tourism to earn their daily bread and the current situation is devastating for them.

But as I already told my wife today: Being stuck in Thailand is better than being shot in Bombay,

**Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:24 am**

Eckhard wrote:In the moment all we can do is just wait for the best. We're safe. Situation in Khao Lak is absolutely normal. The Thais seem to start to get pissed because of the occupation though. The told us that those people who occupy the airport are members of Thailands upper class wanting to protect their old privileges from a government that has been elected by the vast majority of the Thai people. Many if not most of them depend on tourism to earn their daily bread and the current situation is devastating for them.

But as I already told my wife today: Being stuck in Thailand is better than being shot in Bombay,

Actually if I had a choice of getting stuck in any country in the world, I'd chose Thailand, the people are so friendly and look after you.

Good luck Eckhard, see you soon.

**Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:22 am**

It seems that the earliest possiblity of coming home will be the 6th of December.

So I finally got the Oirish voibe: Stuck in a cointroy oi doin't beloing oin.

**Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:13 pm**

Eckhard wrote:It seems that the earliest possiblity of coming home will be the 6th of December.

So I finally got the Oirish voibe: Stuck in a cointroy oi doin't beloing oin.

My god, 6th December, that is a long wait.

I hope you do make it out then, I mean we're supposed to meeting in Manchester in 13 days!!!!

**Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:13 am**

Took the night bus last night. 11 hours - but thanks to the freely available sleeping pills round here, we could get some rest. Arrived in Bangkok at 0445, got a taxi to the hotel. Fortunately they already let us into our room, so we could refresh. A German couple we made friends with in Kuraburi is also still stuck here, so we will meet them. Then we met a young Thai on Similan Islands who usually works in Sydney but is stuck in Bangkok as well - he comes from here - and we agreed to meet and he'll show us around. Nice bloke.

About 100,000 are stuck in Thailand. I think of organising them and to re-claim the airport.

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