Easter Sunday in Antibes began with a visit to the de toilette. A stealthy bunny had deposited a couple of eggs which were met with welcome hands and Anna and I devoured them before our usual breakfast. Our extended whanau had celebrated long into the night so we decided to go for a walk and […]
Our arrival into France was surprisingly painless. Customs waved ourselves and our bags through. We had time to admire the sun rising over the tarmac and made our way to the mysteriously named terminal two. After the briefest of stops to engage the foot operated toilet flushing mechanisms we checked into our connecting flight to […]
First let me congratulate myself on such a clever headline. It actually came to be in a drowsy period before sleep on the 10th of March. So this entry has exactly one month in the making. If you have not picked up my cleverness please follow this link.(HI NICK!) A small and notable problem is […]
Given that this is my second trip of a life time I think I can be excused for being mildly excited about what the future holds. Things have been quite busy up until about 20 minutes ago when some of my more mundane thought processes evaporated leaving me with an overwhelming sense of BRING IT. […]
Monday and Tuesday have morphed into one long day of examples, theory, discussion and pratical exercises. Thankfully first aid remains a good portion of common sense and the trickier nuances of CPR are being streamlined to make it easy to remember and hopefully save lives. Some of the funnier excerpts of the last day have […]
If you cast a finger and eye back through the sprawling wonderment that is my blog you will read all manner of up to the minute travel tips. Most of these travel tips are harmless and will put you in good stead wherever you go. Until now. This particular tip is for combating jet lag […]
Day five or Fireday was the most actioned packed course day yet. Before I lurch into describing it I have to say Firemen are freakishly good at setting things ablaze. If you ever have to make small talk with a fireman don’t ask them to put out a BBQ that has got out of control. […]
This morning we learned the different classes of fire and which chemical reactions deal to them best. The smoke and fumes from the practical exercises were at times over powering. It was during our lunch break we discovered we had a lot of soot up our noses. Having inadvertently insufflated a variety of things in […]
We had a tutor change today. A more salty older dog if you will. Not as class focussed as our last tutor he stormed his way through the course material so he could tell stories and anecdotes like the time his ship had hit the Glasgow sewerage pump barge. Sadly that is all of his […]
Consider me sea cultured. I now read skipper magazine on my lunch break and spy advertisements like this in between articles. One only reads skipper magazine for the articles. Obviously. Excuse the blurriness. My phone has no sea legs.