About 20 years ago we started dreaming of this trip and now, incredibly, we have completed it, and are back home. The ‘back home’ part still feels a bit surreal every now and then. No more planning of the next…
Monday, December 22, 2014 Thanks to gps tracking we spotted Sterlin’s cruise ship, ‘Hapag-Lloyd Seoul Express’ in the Bay just across from Pier 32. Sterlin was in one of the smaller containers at the front of the ship. Thursday, January…
Saturday, December 13, 2014 We are still waiting for Sterlin to arrive back home. Not only has his ship been delayed with a few weeks (tell me something new); there also seems to be some ‘actions’ from the stevedores (really…
It had arrived: the last day of our ‘Around The World Trip’. That evening we boarded a plane in Ho Chi Minh / Saigon that took us back home to San Francisco. Bittersweet really. On the one hand we felt sad…
This is a blog post about the things that have not quite gone right with our Sterlin. We have completed 55,000 kms (35,000 miles) over some pretty unforgiving terrain. We have had only one major failure but did have lots…
Before the trip started Sterlin was checked over by Philippe our local Land Rover mechanic. Philippe had competed all of our major repairs and we certainly trust him with Sterlin. Before we set off, he wanted to have one final…
Thursday, November 27, 2014 During the morning we sailed up the Saigon River, which was a little surreal. The river is big, but it feels a lot smaller when sailing in a cruise ship. By lunchtime we arrived on Ho…
Monday, November 24, 2014 We stopped in Nha Trang for a day and did a little window shopping and a lovely walk around town. The plan was to walk along the beach to the Po Nagar Cham Towers, but the heat…
Friday, November 21, 2014 The World left Ha Long Bay at 8pm on November 20th and docked in Chan May around 6pm the following day. The ship was docked miles form anything so that evening we did not go ashore.…
November, 2014 On November 9th we said goodbye to Europe (at least for this trip) and flew to Hong Kong where we boarded M/V The World. This part of our trip will saw us in Hong Kong for 5 days,…
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Around noon we reached Ha Long Bay, our entry point into Vietnam. The bay features some 2000 of limestone karst islets and islands in all shapes and sizes, which makes for stunning scenery. In 1994 the…
Sunday, November 16, 2014 After a day at sea and on route from Hong Kong to Vietnam, we docked for 2 days at Sanya, Hainan Island, China. Not much to this place really. It’s being marketed as the ‘Hawaii of China’, because…
Monday, November 10, 2014 After a long, tiring flight (these long hauls usually are) on Qatar Airlines from Brussels, via Doha – somehow we’d expected more of that airline… will have to try Emirates next – we arrived in Hong…
Wednesday to Friday, November 5 – 7, 2014 Caroline took the 12:58pm Eurostar from London St Pancras to Brussel Zuid (naturally there was a 25 minute delay entering the tunnel), and from there continued onto Gent to stay 2 days…
Sunday to Thursday, November 2 – 6, 2014 Stephen flew back to San Francisco to organize a few things. Uneventful trip, which is the best kind. Caroline stayed back in Europe.
