The ‘Thai Sang Greet’, a poky candle lit café on the outskirts of Bankok, Thailand December 1967 I was there sitting around a square distorted kitchen table, one of several that decorated the dark dungeon like café, chewing the fat with a few fellow travelers Bankok then was home to the King of Siam,…
Category: True Tales
Of Whales, Tankers & Oil Pipelines –
Witchcraft –
Our Nell at War
Our Nell at War , Up early every morning to make tea for Mick, Gina, John & Mary. That was our Nell!! More like soup than tea…it was that strong, but ‘that’s the way she liked it’…. and everyone else had to like it too… or lump it. Never time for much fuss. She had…
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Tall and True Tales of Travel and Trivia – A collection of stories – tall and true – fueled by a free spirited life of journeying to remote places around the world – of personal experiences and impressions and imaginative events, construed and sometimes embellished to purvey humor, interest and readability. The Author […] About…
The Worlds Tallest Building
The fantasy’s of childhood The huge tall building on Abercorn St….. Bulawayo’s tallest. I remember it well. Some years ago, my friend and I, one day, during school holidays, walked into town from where we lived in Westgate, the railway suburb on the SW side of Bulawayo, previously known as Kopiesite. We both carried…
Witchcraft Voodoo & the Paranormal
Traditional Superstitions and the Paranormal
Of Whales, Tankers & Oil Pipelines
A perspective on the Whaling industry as a former source of commercial oil and the controversy over the transportation of its modern day replacement by land and by sea with a perspective of its demand in modern society.
Of Wild Knock-down Winds, Converging tides, Bumpy seas & a lost Toilet Seat
Astoria, Oregon and drama on the Columbia River Bar.
Any mariner who plies the coastal waters of the Pacific North West, knows how wild that coast can often be. Chances are they also know the entrance to the Columbia River and the Bar that protects it from any dubious vessel that dares to challenge it’s uncompromising wrath at the wrong time, ……..for the bar…