Archive for November, 2008

Remembrance day in Canada. I have been given some good contacts of people to visit in the countryside, like farms and a youth project.

Vancouver

I arrived into Vancouver on Saturday morning at 07:00 and visited Vancouver city during the day and spent Saturday night on the ship, Sunday the ship left for Seattle and i made my way up into town again to the Hosteling International Downtown Hostel.I checked in and was given room 214 on entering the room at 12:30 pm the curtains were closed and [...]

I'm dodging bed bugs in the not so clean youth hostels in the Vancouver central area. Canadian customs are being good to me though.

I'm dodging bed bugs in the not so clean youth hostels in the Vancouver central area. Canadian customs are being good to me though.

First night in Vancouver last night and tomorrow will start to make progress into getting the car out of the shipping container.

I have arrived in Vancouver and will be staying on the ship tonight, lots of work to get the car onto Canadian roads next week.

Last Day at sea

Prince Rupert is a small container terminal having only 3 container lifts and can only take one ship at a time the size of the Mv hanjin Madrid. The canadians call the containers cans and they have all sorts of funny names and abbreviations for everything which is confusing, i am planning to keep my English english as they seem to like hearing us [...]

I have arrived in northern Canada for a 24 hour stop in Prince Rupert before sailing down to Vancouver.

Prince Rupert Canada

We have just arrived in Canada for a short stop off to unload 900 containers then load up with some empty containers and at about 12:00 tomorrow we will make our way down to Vancouver in the south where my car and my self will be unloaded. I think we will arrive on Friday. I have to remind everyone that i am now about 8 hours behind the United [...]

Alaskan Gulf

We are currently 70 nautical miles away from the northern Canadian port of Prince Rupert, we will be discharging and loading around 5000 container units there. We have reduced speed to 17.6 knots from around 22 knots and are planning to layup at midnight and wait for our pilots booked time of 05:00 am we will be in the dock and unloading [...]