“Aladdin's adventure on board Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior was updated with new and bigger pictures during March '14 while on board Roy Maersk”
I also update with a few names I found on the internet while looking for information about the Mediterranean Tour 2006.
I usually never put names on my web page, but these names were all over the internet so why not?
I also update with a few names I found on the internet while looking for information about the Mediterranean Tour 2006.
I usually never put names on my web page, but these names were all over the internet so why not?
Wednesday 7 th of June 2006 and I had been on watch for about one hour when it became midnight. We were on course 295° towards Sicily when we were relieved at 04:00.
When I came on my watch at 12:00 we were steering 298°(t) towards Kriti. We have a rendezvous with Esperanza South of Kriti on Friday morning. We will transfer our Deckhand from India to them and we will get an assistant Cook from Israel. Esperanza is bound for Lebanon and they want to get the Israeli crew member off the ship before arriving to Lebanon.
We will also swap some charts, after Lebanon they will go back the same way we came and they need our charts.
Otherwise Wednesday the 7th of June will go to the history as an uneventful day. Hold your horses right there buddy boy! Maybe not so uneventful after all.
My nose had been running for the last 2 - 3 days and I have been sneezing so the whole crew are complaining that they can't sleep during the nights. My eyes are red and itchy and I'm sure I'm allergic to something.- Maybe it's the blanket, Bosun said.
-That's it, I said and snapped my fingers.
My ex watch man had brought me a blanket the other night and now I'm sneezing like a machine gun.- You just stay tuned for the latest developments and you will be updated with all the news about my sneezing and the blanket.
Today will also go down the history books as the first day since I joined with not one single picture taken! But I guess this will be the only day with no pictures.
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Thursday 8 th
of June 2006
and I had our Spanish volunteer on my watch, my former look out will leave us for Esperanza and he is working day time the last day onboard. Our Spanish volunteer is on the 12 - 4 watch from today.I was busy correcting charts, some of the charts over the Greek archipelago haven't been corrected for 5 years. So there are millions of tracings, but the time turned quick and it was soon time to call our relievers.
Our Spanish volunteer went to wake up our Australian girl, he made a cup of tea (with milk and no sugar) and he brought
a banana. Well, this felt into good ground, at least to say and today there was no wrangle
when our Australian girl came to the bridge. Actually she was in a upbeat mood, well, I don't want to go so far and say that we experienced a renaissance for the “ HUG ZONE ”. But anyway, she was in a good mood.Hmm, I don't want to say that she is grumpy the other mornings when she comes to the bridge. Actually, she is always in an upbeat mood. And I'm impressed that someone can be in such a good mood 03:50 in the morning.
Hmm, again, that is 03:50 when you're just coming from bed. I have been in what we say, an upbeat mood, and several times at 03:50. But of course then it have been before bed time. The
day after? Hmm, again, how can you be in an upbeat mood when you're having a hangover force 9,8?Well, we just wanted to make sure she knew that we're thinking of her and that we care for her well-being and I really don't understand where I got the energy from (04:20 in the morning) to write all this non-stop drivel. Well, anyway, this is how we operates on the 12 - 4 watch.
Chipping on deck
Chipping on deck
Chipping on deck
Last day on board for our Indian volunteer
When coming on my watch at 12:00 the chipping of the deck was in full swing. Actually they are chipping just above my cabin and I woke up by all the noise. Well, the deck crew were busy with
hammers and brushes. It was quiet and nice when they went for lunch, but they were soon back on the bridge. And I don't remember when things started to get out of hand.He••, I don't even remember what happened anymore, but I know that our Spanish volunteer got grounded for a week and his allowance is revoked indefinitely. I even had to spank him a little and after that I was the popular guy and the crew came up to me asking for a smack on the bottom.
- Please! I need some spanking as well.
Well, the avoir la fessée had not the effect I had been hoping for. He was screaming “more more”
- Or was it ......?No, it's not possible, or ... Hmm, was it amore amore
he was screaming?I really don't hope it was, but there are many people out there with strange taste.
Imagine the horror raise a child that likes to be spanked.
- I'll smack your bottom if I caught you with the hand in the cookie jar again!
Well, it was soon 1 o'clock and they went back out on deck to continue the painting. Rainbow Warrior will look good at arrival to Genoa. Hopefully she is not the only one looking good by then.
Our French volunteer baking a cake
Anne faire un geteau “ FREEDOM ”
Our French volunteer baking a cake
Anne faire un geteau “ FREEDOM ”
So it's the last day onboard for our Deckhand from India, tomorrow morning he will transfer to Esperanza. Our French volunteer was baking a cake during the afternoon. I
think she likes to cook, well, that's good. But my diet! Things got out of hand when it was time to lick the spatula.Well, it started when our volunteer took one lick from the spatula, with in a second the crew were around like flies on sugar. I was lucky to have my
camera handy so I could immortalize the moment and that means that you can enjoy the pictures on www.aladdin.st whenever you want.I hope this is the closest I will ever come to the cake, if I want to see the final result I will need a picture. I'm on a heavy diet and I hope I'm on deck walking when it's time to eat the cake.
I felt a little peckish, cake mixture can be real yummy. Sometimes the mixture is better than the ready results.
I fled the scene before I started to lick the bowl and I was soon back on the bridge to my chart corrections.
Yum-yum!
Miam-miam!
Amoureux Raymond! Aujourd'hui être dernier jour e bord la pontmain du l'Inde, demain lui déplacer totti tut
Esperanza. Anne faire un geteau “ FREEDOM ” cau-dessous de apres-midi. Chose commencement marcher de travers spectaculer de la descendre quand spatule j'allais chercher lécher.Pour que Mademoiselle Anne lecher une cuillerée de pâte. Équipage se jeter sur Mademoiselle
Anne qui mouche sur uno morceau. Chanceux Monsieur Aladdin posséder la camera ingenieux en poche. Maintenant tous vous voir photo extravagant. Monsieur Aladdin avoir extraordinaire
service, mais Monsieur Aladdin fatigue.Beaucoup de boulot de avoir l'Internet cetee avec legende bilingue, mais pour que être géant bien s'amuser de rejouir homme de Franeais. Malheureusement comme là être Monsieur Aladdin permis de manger un geteau “ FREEDOM ”, Monsieur Aladdin csuivre un regime severe.
Well, after my watch I wrote a few words on my web page and then I was out for my walk on deck. Now they have painted port side so I had to walk up and down on Starboard side.
According to our roster I was on the mess duty today. Well, this must be the last thing left of the original Greenpeace
spirit. Everyone does mess duty except the Cook.Maybe this mess duty is a way of trying to keep the original Greenpeace spirit alive. Now Greenpeace are as any big company. When Rainbow Warrior was in Hong Kong there was a guy flying in to Hong Kong from Amsterdam just to tell the crew that they had to cut their salary.
- Hmm, I wonder how many member's annual fee it took to pay for this trip.The activist is the heart and soul of Greenpeace and when they are gone the Greenpeace spirit is gone. People that have been worked for free for many years to built up Greenpeace, have to listen to a guy that had flied across the world:
- You have to cut down your salary! We want to have Pilipino crew onboard.
But they never said anything about cutting their own salary. Surprised? In the office they have an annual income of between 50 and 75 000 €. How many supporters annual charge is that?
Rainbow Warrior goes flag of convenient??!! How can they keep the Greenpeace spirit alive with a crew from a manning agency? Is the manning agency sending a crew willing to get arrested and to take the risk of losing their licenses?Well, if the mess duty is the only way to keep the original Greenpeace spirit alive we have to do it.
One thing is for sure, I haven't experienced this spirit since 1990 when I was living in a student's
corridor (collective) where we took turns in the kitchen.- If I have missed it? Hmm, it for sure makes us feel intimately allied to each other.
But then again, if this is the purpose with the mess duty I wonder if our Cook is feeling that he is being left outside because he doesn't do any mess duty.
- Hmm, living in a student's corridor in a 10m² room with shower and kitchen in the corridor.
Well, I don't know, it was fun living with all the socialist, communists, feminist and homosexuals and I
don't know all. Hell, I even woke up one night with this guy coming in to my room trying to get down in my bed.(This is the reason that I always lock my cabin and apartment when I'm sleeping)
- WHAT THE BIP ! FÅCK OFF OUT OFF HERE! I screamed.
- But you ....
- I DON'T CARE! GET THE FÅCK OUT OFF HERE
But the best was the day when I found my name in the news paper.- WHAT THE BIP !
I could read that Mr. Aladdin and the rest of the people living in the student's corridor were against prostitution
and pornography , well, fair enough. I don't mind getting rid of that stuff. But I did not knew when/ or where I would found my name the next time. Maybe I find out in some news paper that Mr. Aladdin thinks that North Korea is the paradise on earth.When I was ready with my mess duty I felt a little guilty because I didn't eat any cake. Our French volunteer had made a cake and I was ill-mannered not to eat. I could see that she was sad and I made myself a bucket of tea and I had some cake. (very very little)
- I'll be darn, what is this? The pieces are stuck together! Hey! I'm on a diet here!
I went straight out on deck and I had an hour of walking and 9 o'clock it was shower time and then I washed all my laundry.
I spent the evening watching photos with our 3rd Engineer in my cabin. But first I offered him a Diet Drink and he
accepted my offer. Well, I could not help crying a little, but it was so beautiful when he was opening an American soda next to the American flag.  |
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Don't be afraid, it tastes good.
At 11 o'clock I went forward
to put my laundry in the dryer. I ran in to our Spanish Deckhand outside my cabin and she told me that she had put my laundry in the dryer. Great, saved me a trip to the laundry machines under the Fo’c’s’le. She is so sweet!+++++++++++++++
Friday 9 th
of June 2006
and we were still steering towards Crete when we came on watch at midnight. We were still in high spirits after receiving all the gratitude from our Australian girl
after bringing her tea in the bed. Well, not in her bed, we brought the tea to her in her bed.We were at least to say inspired by all the gratitude and we decided to bring her a
piece of the cake with the tea today. We were waiting for her on the bridge like two school boys. I don't want to say that we were over excited, but pretty close.The disappointment were beyond comprehension, indescribable, she looked like a black cloud when she came to the bridge. We went from excited to
crestfallen within a tenth of a second.- Don't bring me any tea in the morning!
Well, what to say? We had to skip plan A, oh yeah, we're one step ahead and we had already planned for tomorrow morning. Now we have to come up with a plan B, and its have to be a real good plan. Crestfallen or not, the life has to go on.
They had met with Esparanza during the morning when I was sleeping to change the crew. So when I came on my watch at 12:00 we passed Kriti (Crete) and we had swapped our Deckhand from India for a Deckhand from Israel.
- Do you mind having the new guy on watch? Chief Mate asked.
- You are going to put the Israeli on watch with the Nazi?
At the coffee break the bridge was full of Engineers watching Crete, an afternoon excitement for me. The watch turns quick and I can soon be on deck walking.
Engineer as we're used to see them, with a coffee cup in their hand
Engineer as we're used to see them, with a coffee cup in their hand
Now they are on the bridge having a good time
Now they are on the bridge having a good time
Spanish Deckhands and Crete in the back
Pictures had to be taken
Our Chief Engineer was surprised when he caught sight of our GPS. He could hardly believe his eyes
when he saw the GPS showing speed over ground 9,2 knots.- 9,2 knots, we're very fast today. Burning fuel like there is no tomorrow, he said pointing at the GPS.
At 4 o'clock I was down to my cabin writing a few words on my web page and then it was time for my constitutional.
I was walking for about one hour when my foot started to hurt again. I tried to hobble
around for a few laps, but I had to give up, OF COURSE, I was in a bad mood. First the good morning tea for the Australian girl fiasco and now this. And my diet can't stand many of the cancelled walks.But I was soon in a good mood again, our crew came to watch the sun set and we were sitting in front of the bridge discussing many important things. Among them important things we discussed the good morning tea.
Hmm 20°C and I'm freezing, the rest of the crew had been freezing the last few days,
but I'm a Viking and I'm built to last. Well, I left deck for my cabin and later on I started a video with our 3rd Engineer. We watched Sin City, but it was soon time to go for my watch and I wanted to send some e-mails before going on watch. Not enough time for all the fun on board and that's even though we retarded ships time by 1 hour at 23:00.
Evening on the Mediterranean
Evening on the Mediterranean
Evening on the Mediterranean
Evening on the Mediterranean
Evening on the Mediterranean
Evening on the Mediterranean
Evening on the Mediterranean
Evening on the Mediterranean
Evening on the Mediterranean
Watching the sunset
Watching the sunset
Watching the sunset
Watching the sunset
Watching the sunset
Watching the sunset
Watching the sunset
It's getting cold
Before you go to the next page you can check out the Greenpeace Media webpage about Rainbow Warrior and Esperanza adventure outside Crete. Click HERE to visit the page. This page is saved on www.aladdin.st to avoid the above problem with removed pages from Greenpeace's web page.
So this will be available for as long as www.aladdin.st is up and running.
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Saturday 10 th
of June 2006
and I had a new guy on watch when I came on my watch at midnight. A new guy to interrogate and the time turned quick. It was soon time to be relieved by the girls. Hmm, ship time retarded by 1 hour yesterday and today I woke up at 10:30, what to do? I could not fall asleep again so I went for my shower and I had time to write a few word on my web page before our Spanish Deckhand is coming to wake me up.They were doing boat training on deck when I went for my shower. The crew is training to launch and how to handle the inflatable boats. Its Saturday so the crew had the day off after lunch and
today I saw them with big bowls of popcorn in the mess room. They spent the afternoon watching a DVD from Esperanza and eating popcorn.Our Israeli volunteer had brought a DVD from Esperanza's action against tuna nets.
I had our
French volunteer and Bosun on the bridge during the afternoon. We talked about this and that and they told me it was hard to have a family when working on the ship.- I don't care very much for the marriage, but I never say no to a wedding party.
I remember last winter when I was on my friend's wedding party. I had to fly in to the city where they had hired a ballroom at Marriot hotel. I bought a business class ticket and I was ready to go. But this biz ticket turned out to be a monkey class ticket, well, I got my money back so no problem with that.
Flying monkey class was not the worst, but when they kicked me out from the business lounge in Copenhagen I felt like a backpacker trying to sneak in and use the toilet at Sheraton Hotel.
Backpackers, well, travellers as they prefer to call themselves. I remember one time, it was around 6 o'clock in
the morning and we were dead drunk and we were sitting on a notorious night spot when I could see one guy enter the place.From a distance he looked like a gunman with his double holster. But as he came closer I could see that he was carrying a bottle of water on each hip, a “ on the shoestring ” travel guide in his right hand and a roll of toilet paper in the left hand. Oh yeah, you can spot them on quite a distance. I screamed:
- It's not easy to be a sex tourist!
- You’re tourist, I'm a traveller! He said.
I'm sure that he thought that there were going to come an enormously amount of respect his way for being a traveller. Well, the whole place burst out in laughter
Everyone was screaming of laughter wetting their pants and the waiters had to come pick us up from the floor so the business could continue.
Well, where were we? I got a little carried away. Sorry for that, oh yes, my friend got
married to a Chinese girl and it was a Chinese styled wedding party with a few hundred guests. The wedding party was fun, but my friend told me that there was a dress code. He told me especially
that I didn't want to see me in my suit with flowers, not even my signal red, orange and blue suit.- What the ...?
Well, I made a compromise and I used a wine-red suit and it seems like they liked it.
Especially my friend's wife's Chinese girl friends. They were running around asking about me all evening.
No colour, well, I found a colourful wrapping for my wedding present. But unfortunately I didn't
found enough of the wrapping, so it was 50/50 wrapping and old newspapers. They looked strange at the package at the airplane when I flew down to attend his wedding party. But that was noting comparing to how they looked at me at the wedding party.It's amazing, this was winter 2005 and my friend's wife's girlfriends are still asking about the
handsome guy. I have instructed my friend to tell them that I'm out with the space shuttle, exploring Africa or, well, actually you have to be careful. If you say that you're flying the space shuttle the girls wants an instant date and when they meet you they scream:- Who is this looser?
I wanted to avoid awkward situations like that and I told my friend that I'm better off keeping a low profile.
- Tell them that I'm busy exploring the local Seven Eleven around the corner.
- Puh hvor er jeg træt!
Jaja Thomas, nu e d din tur o va med. Du trodde du skulle klaradig undan efter fisk bilden.
Men jag tog ju i varje fall inte en bild från den serien jag sköt av vid din bekännelse på Old Dutch.
We were the last guests in this big ballroom, all the other guests had left. This huge room felt very big when all the guests
had left. We were soon thrown out, well, it started with a polite:- Sorry Sir, but were out of beer and wine.
When they started to vacuum under our table we got the hint and we left for mi casa.At my place there were more than enough to drink. I don't know about eating, (I don't remember us eating) but I remember that my friend fired up the BBQ and then he left the BBQ just to make sure that we all knew what kind of music he liked.
The BBQ were soon back to our attention when someone pointed out that the balcony was on fire. Sh•t happens when you drink vodka.
The only reason that I'm here to write about it today is because I didn't had a gun. I woke up with a hangover force 9,99 and this was something of the worst I had ever experienced. If I had had a gun I would for sure have shoot myself in the head.
- Psst, I had to leave the country because of all the Chinese girls chasing me. Please don't tell
them were to find me.Hmm, kind of got lost there. Well, the time turned quick with Bosun and our
French volunteer on the bridge. I was soon relieved by Chief Mate and I could go write a little on my web page. Our Bosun, (living next to me) was in his cabin and inspired from my door he asked if I could get a flag for him.- Which one do you like? I asked.
- Hmm, maybe a rag, he said.
- I think I know your style. We try the ragamuffin style and I got exactly what you're asking for, I said.Well, I did my 2 hours of walking and I had 30 minutes of quality time with the crew watching the sunset. At 2030 I went to the mess room for tea and I meet the other half of the crew there.
Bosun came to the mess room a few minutes later.
- Hmm, I wasn't very impressed by the flag on my door, he said. But it lasted longer than the American flag on my door and when I went for my watch at midnight it was still there.
He thinks that I have put a nice flag on his door
He thinks that I have put a nice flag on his door
During the evening our 3rd Engineer/ Electrician came in to my cabin with his writing book. I saw him during the day on deck writing in his book. He didn't want to be disturbed when I asked what he wrote.
- I will lose my inspiration, he said.
But he came to my cabin and he told me that he had been writing poetry on deck. He had been writing poems about each one of the crew.
Reading his poetry
What about a courtesy shirt?
Making a last second change
What about a courtesy shirt?
After the poetry I was off to finish the movie Sin City from yesterday. I also had a little time in my cabin and my web page before my watch.
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Sunday 11 th
of June 2006
and we were still steering 294°(t) towards the Stretto di Messina between Italy and Sicilia. With this speed we're expecting to see the Mount
Etna tomorrow evening. The weather was nice, no wind since 2 days and we're making almost 9 knots.We had a beautiful night with full moon and I decided to try get a picture of the scenery. Hmm, maybe not the best result, but I feel that I want to share the moment with you.
At 0300 our 3rd Engineer/ Electrician came for a visit to the bridge.
Hmm, strange time for a social visit, but never the less, our 3rd Engineer and the Deckhand soon got carried away and there was nothing stopping them going on about Tao.
3rd Engineer and my “NEW” lookout
03:55 and the Australian girl come for her watch
Yes, we can see how happy you are when one brings tea and “cake” for you in the morning
Our girls kicked me down from the bridge 15 minutes before 5. But before that our Australian girl told me that, well, not that I was looking good, but almost.
- You're looking better and better, she said.
- What does that mean?
That I did look bad before? Is it because I had succeeded in optimizing the “ FLAT STOMACH EFFECT ” or because she has been onboard for almost 5 weeks without seeing land? Yes, a few
weeks on a boat can have that very effect. When I joined the ship in Singapore the girls
were, well, after 3 weeks on the Indian Ocean I was in love with all of them.I was called for at 11:30 and soon after coming to watch I saw the first big turtle. Sitting on the bridge on Rainbow Warrior is like sitting in an inflatable, not like to be up in the sky on a super tanker. So the turtle looked like an island in the horizon.
- What the
Here should not be any islands, I ran around the bridge double checking charts and positions and I was relieved when I discovered that it was the shell of a very big turtle that I saw.
I little later it was time again and I called the crew in the mess room, but by the time
they came up on the poop deck the turtle had disappeared in the horizon.I'll be darn, but 10 minutes later I saw another big lump in the horizon and I changed
course towards the turtle.I went back and I called to the crew watching video in the mess room through the sky light on poop deck.
- Possible turtle coming up! HURRY UP OR YOU WILL MISS THE TURTLE!!!
This time it was only our 3rd Engineer showing up. It would have been perfect if I had changed course 5 ° more to starboard.
But we came pretty close and we estimated the shell to be about 1 meter.
Radio Operator looking for turtles
Enjoying themselves in the mess room
Enjoying themselves in the mess room
Enjoying themselves in the mess room
We're surrounded by giant turtles and they are sitting in the mess room
We're surrounded by giant turtles and they are sitting in the mess room
3rd Engineer is the only one coming up
Our 3rd Engineer was rewarded with a turtle
My new watch man stuck in front of a boring video. Whats keeping him...
Is it the Spanish girl?
Must be, they watched a 6 hours Chinese drama ( 20 minutes is enough to make you want to jump in front of a bus)
while there are millions of turtles swimming around us
while there are millions of turtles swimming around us
Bosun on the bridge
Bosun on the bridge
He grew tired of the Chinese drama and he went to play the guitar
on the Fo’c’s’le
on the Fo’c’s’le
You see what Porky are up against. People playing guitar, writing poems, hanging from wires and are fluent in French
Well well, what do you know? All the turtle excitements and it was soon 4 o'clock. We saw a small turtle just before I was relieved by our Chief Mate, but I hope I can get a better picture during my constitutional.
I really wish that I can get one nice picture. So far all my flying fishes and stuff had been nothing but a disappointment. But I got a good feeling for today and the turtles.
Hasta la Vista! I'm out of here for my constitutional. And why not, talk about spur and stimulation, said that I was looking better. And the more time I spent walking around the Rainbow Warrior the better I will look. I really hope that I look better because of the 5 weeks on the ships without land in sight. Hmm, maybe she was tired and just wanted me to leave the bridge, well, I guess that we will never find out. And is there anyone that cares?Before going to deck I went to the galley to refill my water bottle. I found our Radio Operator in full swing making pizza. I had a piece for a tester and I must say that I had to take one more just to make sure it really was that good as the first piece tasted. Hmm, just to make things worse our
Spanish volunteer had made cookies during the afternoon. And when on it I could as well take a few of those as well. But I never told anyone about it.The crew was eating pizza on deck while I did my constitutional. The weather was a little
gloomy and grey and it looked like there would be rain.We prepared the ship for the rain by closing all the
hatches to the accommodation. The AC were turned of since we entered the Mediterranean, the crew is freezing, 21°C is not enough for them.I discussed the morning tea with our Spanish Deckhand, she will be on the 4 - 8 watch when we
leave Genoa. She told me that she likes honey and milk in her tea.- We fix, I said.
- I will bring the tea myself so I don't have to hear that I'm forcing the deckhands to run around with tea to the girls. You just make sure that you are wearing a pyjamas when I'm coming with the tea, I really don't want to run in to you private life.
She was taking pictures with my camera while I was walking and I found the picture of her and the Australian girl. One of them looking forward to the morning tea and the other one, well, yeah we know the story by now.
We managed to dodge the rain, well, a few drops felt on us. But we had expected a real shower because the sky was black. So I was lucky and I could walk without getting wet.
Actually my walk was very nice. When I got of my watch at 16Ö00 we could see mainland Italy in the horizon and now we passed very close to the Italian mainland. We entered the strait of Messina during my walk and there were plenty ferries and yacht. First real encounter with traffic since we left Singapore 33 days ago. Nice to be back in the civilization.
Well, 3 hours of walking, Ok, take away a few minutes for the time our Spanish Deckhand held me up with her drivel. After my constitutional I spent some time in front of the bridge telling cock-and-bull stories to the crew, it was almost 9 o'clock when I left deck for a cup of tea.
Eating pizza
Eating pizza
Eating pizza
Eating pizza
Enough already!
Enough already!
Enough already!
Drinking beer
Spanish Deckhand Playing with my camera - Radio Operator
Spanish Deckhand Playing with my camera
Spanish Deckhand Playing with my camera
Spanish Deckhand Playing with my camera - Spanish volunteer
Italy
Black clouds
Passing showers
Passing showers
The sun is setting
Yes, back in 2006 I didn't master the “photomerge” technique, and of course, I don't have the pictures anymore so I cannot re-do it
I watched a movie with our
French volunteer and our 3rd engineer soon joined in. They asked if I had tried the cookies our Spanish volunteer had made during the afternoon.- No, I haven't, I said.
It was a fib, but now I could eat cookies and drink my tea without having to be embarrassed.
It's normal to have a few cookies and no one suspect that I have a eating disturbance and needs to eat cookies all the time. I gave up after about 40 minutes (the video, I didn't kept on eating cookies for 40 minutes) and I went for a shower and it was almost time for my watch again.Before going to my watch I went to the mess room and asked our 3rd Engineer if I could copy his
poem about me to put on my web page. I also asked him if he could let our French volunteer read hers as well so we could get her permission to put that on the web as well.- I need some time so I can translate hers to French before arrival to Genoa so Amoureux Raymond can put it on our
French volunteer's web BLOG.- Do you know French?
- Yes, our French volunteer said she loved my French, I said- I only understood your French because I knew what it said, our French volunteer said to me.
I could not believe my ears, it was devastating for myself-esteem.
- So you mean to say that Amoureux Raymond understood fåck all of what I wrote to him?
- Hold it there for a minute, I will just try to explain this for Amoureux Raymond . I will go French for a few seconds, hang on!
Amour... Hey! What's the fåcking use, no one understands my French. What to do with my
book I started to write? I have written 300 pages on my magnum opus “ How growing up in Sweden with a French heart and mind affect your choice of friends
”, all written in French (But it turned out to be Scooby Doo
French)This monumental work was supposed to be my thesis in sociology. But what a waste, no one understands it, well, except maybe me. And PLEASE OBSERVE that I say maybe.
But I think its Amoureux Raymond that gives me the real agony. He hasn't understood f... all of what I have been writing
and he probably thinks (with all rights) that I'm a raving lunatic. I will try to explain it for him, I don't want there to be any bad feelings between us.I will go Scooby
French for a while, English speaking readers just hit the PG DN
key a few times to skip the drivel.Amoureux Raymond !! Jour Mademoiselle Anne dire Monsieur Aladdin écrire français merde piètre. Monsieur Aladdin désolé grande.
La semaine dernier Mademoiselle Anne dire Monsieur Aladdin écrire franeais oh lala, bon. Moi plein de confiance commencement ecrire livre “ Comment il a passe son enfance e La Suedein avec francias coe ur et âme fluencer ton selection ami ”.
Moi rattraper de écrire 300 pages avant que moi peu de un affront. Que faire? Mon chef-d'oe.uvre avoirse révéler comme nul. Ce pus thèse a sociologie moi.+++++++++++++++
Monday 12 th
of June 2006
and we had passed the Strait of Messina when I came on my watch at midnight. We were between Strait of Messina and the volcano island Stromboli when I came on my
watch. At 03:00 we had passed the Stromboli island We steered course 316°(t) towards Isola Capraia and, well, aren't we getting a little tired of the “ time turned quickly
” remark by now.When our relievers came to the bridge they asked if we could see the Stromboli.
- It's just another rock, I said.
My Deckhand told them that there had been some beautiful lightning's during the watch and when we looked back to see the lightning we could seethat the volcano on Stromboli was glowing and belched lava and flames high in the sky. I went down to get my camera but I didn't get any pictures.
But I went straight down to my cabin and I could tick off an erupting volcano in my list of thing to see. Well, let's see, big shark, volcano, yeah, the only thing left is a swimming giraffe
My afternoon watch had nothing exciting to offer, except watching the Engineers
repairing a leaking hydraulic oil pipe. I could barely handle the excitement and I was standing on the rail ready to jump overboard with a bag of cement in my arms when our Australian girl came and saved my day. I had received news that I would have a Doctor on my watch when my Israeli volunteer went home from Genoa.I told her that I was on watch with the new Doctor after leaving Genoa. We will get a girl from Lebanon as our ship Doctor in Genoa.
- Maybe she is beautiful, our Australian girl said.
- Depends on if it's a Doctor or a Paramedic, I said.
- Why?
- If it's a Doctor she will be to old, I said.
- In Sweden you need to be on school for hundreds of years before you're a Doctor. She will be over 30 and over the hill, I said.
- So when your 30 you're over the hill? Our Australian girl asked.
- Did I say that? I could hear that it didn't sound that good.
Well, I hope it's a Doctor so I can ask her all the questions you want to ask a Doctor. It will be like having your private Doctor with you all the time. The only black cloud on an otherwise blue sky was that I'm on watch with her because she has no choice.
Or as our Chief Mate said the other day:
- You will be on watch with the new Lebanese girl, the other girl onboard don't want to be on watch with you.
I could not believe my ears. Hmm, this is how you're treated as the only Nazi onboard, well, just bring it on! I'm used to it by now.
I was sitting with our Spanish volunteer and our Israeli Deckhand laughing while cracking a few jokes. All of the sudden the girl that don't want to go watch with me came and pushed me away.
- Fåck off, I want to sit next to our Spanish volunteer!
Suddenly I found myself far away from the centre of events.
Yeah - yeah, I also found time to talk about the mystery of life with the Australian girl and as you can guess we could not solve that problem, but the time turned quick and I was soon of my watch.
Our wooden flipper
During my watch I had also noticed that they were taking of the canvas from our figurehead, a wooden Flipper. After my watch I went forward to take a picture.
We're getting close to port and we want to show our wooden Flipper. We have ETA 10:00 on Wednesday. I got an e-mail from my friend and he sign on a ship in Genoa on Tuesday, but they will leave early Wednesday morning. Maybe I can reach them on the VHF. I sent him an e-mail that I will be stand-by on CH 16 between 00:00 and 04:30 14th of June when we approach Genoa.
Our Chief Mate told me that I could not walk today because our Skipper has to sleep.
- Well, I need to rest my foot and I can enjoy the dinner. But I will never forgive you, I said.
Deck
Our volunteer from Israel cleaning kitchen stuff
3rd Engineer reading his poem about the Spanish volunteer, for the Spanish volunteer
Australian Deckhand painting
After dinner we went out on deck to watch the sun set. We were sitting in front of the bridge talking about Flippers. By now there are 13 on a dozen and we had seen a few during the afternoon. So the excitements had worn of a bit.
- What is a Flipper? Our latest addition to the crew asked.
Yes, what is a flipper, a dolphin. Aladdin calls them flippers and it had caught on. And of course, our new volunteer from Israel didn't knew this
- It's a Dolphin and we have one as a figurehead, we told him.
- What is a figurehead? Our latest addition to the crew asked.
- It's a carving, typically a bust or a full-length figure, set at the prow of an old-fashioned sailing ship, we answered.
- I can't see no Flipper, he said.
- Flipper is on the on the Fo’c’s’le!
The sun disappeared and I went down to the mess room with my watchman. We turned on a good video with several good laughs. I think the name was Bigalow - The American gigolo. We were screaming of laughter during the movie.
This was a day of joy, except the set back with my constitutional. I also brought good news, HMM, I hope I haven't lost my rightto use one or two French words. But good news sounds much better in French. Well, I brought the bonne nouvelle to our Bosun.
- I found the Chinese flag to put on your door.
- VERY GOOD!- But we have to wait until after Genoa, I said.
- Why?
- We will get children onboard for the open day in Genoa. They are here to hug Flipper and Aladdin. If they see the Chinese flag, which most people associates with torture, political persecution, imprisonment, executions, slave workers and wickedness, their visit will turn in to a nightmare. Something we want to prevent at all cost.
Chief Mate washing windows
Bosun watching the sun set
Volunteer from Israel watching the sunset
The sun set
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Tuesday 13 th
of June 2006
and we were still steering 316°(t) towards Isola Capraia when I came on my watch at midnight. At Isla Capraia we will change course for the last time and from there it's about 100 miles to go to Genoa pilot.
We're enjoying the moonshine on our night watch
We're enjoying the moonshine on our night watch
When I came on my watch at 12:00 we could see Isla di Montecristo and at 1500 we passed the island. Our crew were preparing the ship for arrival and they washed the ship, there was still plenty sand over the whole ship after passing the Suez. Our French volunteer told me that they had seen whales during the morning
- They were all around us and they were BIG!
A little later in the afternoon I could see our Bosun running on the Fo’c’s’le waving his hands pointing aft. I look back and there were a big whale behind us.
I grabbed my camera and I was running aft and I got a picture of the whale. But it's just one of those boring pictures again, something black floating in the water, actually it could be anything. But we are growing used to crappypictures by now
Our Spanish part of the crew on the lunch break
Arriving tomorrow and the ship needs a good scrub
Arriving tomorrow and the ship needs a good scrub
Arriving tomorrow and the ship needs a good scrub
Arriving tomorrow and the ship needs a good scrub
Arriving tomorrow and the ship needs a good scrub
They soon forgot about the cleaning and started to look for illegal fishing
Watching Isla De Montecristo
Passing Isla de Montecristo
My watchman navigating
We passed many fishing boats during the afternoon and our
French volunteer and our Spanish Deckhand were looking after illegal fishing. I was most worried about the whales, I really hope that they are not getting caught in some fishing nets.I'll be darned, second day without walking. I was down in my cabin after my watch transferring pictures from my camera to my computer when I felt asleep.
Hmm, well, pictures like the one with the whale are real sleeping pills.I slept for 3 hours and I woke up at 19:30 something. I had a shower and I went on deck for an evening chat in front of the bridge. Last night on board with the crew, in Genoa there will come millions of people and we will be 28 persons something onboard when we leave Genoa.
- I hope it's all communists, militant feminists and people like that, I said.
- Why?
- Then I can introduce myself as, Aladdin, the ships Nazi.
Or as I said to our Israeli Deckhand on my watch.
- You didn't expect that you had to be on watch with a Nazi when you joined Greenpeace.
Well, last day before Rainbow Warrior arrives to Genoa and we will start the driftnet campaign. Genoa, this can be fun, so click the link HERE and you will soon be in Genoa with Rainbow Warrior.
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OK, it has come to my knowledge that we have senior citizens visiting my web page. How hard can it
be? So it's not very easy for them to see the blue coloured links to the next page. Jiffy (also jiff)
noun [in SING.] informal a moment: we'll be back in a jiffy.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: of unknown origin.
So as you understand, in a jiff pretty much depends on your internet.
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