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Portuguese – silverfox175

We arrived in Goa on ANZAC Day and after the dawn service we entered harbour to be greeted by a local quartet. They played a long time as the heat of the day became hotter. Not long after we arrived we had a neighbour – Seven Seas Voyager. Not far away, alongside a floating dry […]

tinny – silverfox175

I consider myself to be very fortunate to be living in Australia and in particular in a leafy suburb which is a forty minute train ride from the city of Sydney. For the past twenty odd years, I have walked every morning in my suburb around 6.00 To 6.30 am and I never get tired […]

Red Bride Cooking – silverfox175

Danang, China Beach and Good Morning Vietnam – with Robin Williams’ Viva Danang comes to mind when I think of this area. We flew from Saigon to Danang airport, which is the airport for Hoi An, where we would be staying. On arrival in Danang (about 9.00 am), we were met by Phong ‘Our man in Danang’, […]

Hoi An, your friendly cook or tailor – silverfox175

The White Rajah – silverfox175

James Brooke (29th April 1803 – 11 June 1868) The picture is from a painting by Sir Francis Grant in 1847 Sarawak, the name brings forth ideas of head hunters and ‘daring do’ from comics that I read in the 1950’s. Little did I know that one day I would sail up the Sarawak River to the town […]

Danzig – silverfox175

Dunera at Tilbury in the early 1960’s We sailed without any passengers from Tilbury (London) to Edinburgh in the Firth of Forth in Scotland, for a cruise of Scottish students to the Baltic. Our first port of call was Kristiansand on the southern tip of Norway. I did miss the heat of the Mediterranean, even […]

I’ll never go abroad – Page 11 – silverfox175

Yokohama, in Tokyo Bay, was our first port of call of our Japanese coastal trip.. If I thought Singapore and Hong Kong were foreign, Yokohama was real ‘foreign’ The people were different from Chinese, very friendly, but different. Fortunately at that time the exchange rate for a British pound note was 1060 Japanese yen. The […]

Henderson’s – silverfox175

I’d been released by the Company to attend Liverpool Technical College to study and to take my Second Mates Foreign Going ticket. This was when I would find out if my shipboard studying, via correspondence course, had been successful. I think this is the old building that I attended on Hunter St. Liverpool, but If […]

Bridge on the River Kwai – silverfox175

In 1945 the Americans bombed the real bridge on the river Kwai. The centre parts of the bridge (the flat bits) are new, and the original part of the bridge has the curved sides. We could walk on the bridge; it is a rail bridge only, and not available for road transport. There was a […]

Hoi An, your friendly cook or tailor – silverfox175

Food & wine – silverfox175

As part of the cruise we were entitled to a complimentary visit to a specialist restaurant. Not being a great fan of Italian food or fish, I voted for the Crown Grill. In addition, we had a voucher for a bottle of wine not to exceed $70 (AUD). I’d never bought a bottle of anywhere […]