Archive for October, 2008
I.D.L
Location is north pacific ocean in between 170oE and 180o the temperature is now much lower at 6oC and the weather is not as good so we have changed route and will be tracking slightly lower than before which means we won’t be going into the Bearing sea anymore we will sail just south of the Aleutian islands at the moment we are due to arrive [...]
Mr Alan Whipp
GMT+11 We left Yokohama at approximately 5.30 p.m. on tuesday evening and now we are in the pacific ocean north east off Hokkaido the most northerly island of Japan we are closer now to the Russian Kuril islands, the weather is good and the air temperature is 10oC we are doing 22 knots. Our planned route which is much different than i had [...]
Mv Hanjin Madrid
GMT+10 I am very lucky to be traveling on the same ship as my car and i managed to do this by finding a company that would take me onboard first then finding another company to load my vehicle onto the same ship, the company that own and organize the ship is N and their office is near to Hamburg, you can book onto one of their ships either [...]
Leaving Japan
GMT+9 Above in the picture is from left Mr Kuni the customs broker, then Shin my friend i met in Russia, Shin fell off his friends motorbike at the weekend and is now on crouches again, and Mr Kohta Takemoto the shipping agent in Japan who is working under instruction of the german shipping agent Transglobal Solutions. I couldn’t sleep last [...]
Tokyo
I am back in Yokohama after an intensive few days visiting Tokyo and the surrounding area, it is such a huge city the largest in the world and it is not possible in 5 days to visit everything. I stayed every night in a different hostel or capsule hotel, the capsule hotels are a great idea as you sleep in a small oblong box that has a TV and radio, [...]
I am making preparations for being at sea for the next two weeks on board a freight ship to Vancouver Canada.