Tony's Life and Times

On what was intended to be a pleasant day's sail out of Newhaven with Lotty, myself and a friend from the Roundhouse, Mike Waterman, all aboard Mjojo, we found ourselves in serious danger of being thrown onto the rocks and drowning. Before setting out, we had (of course) listened to the shipping weather forecast, which promised us reasonably strong winds and clear visibility.  So, we cast off from the inner harbour of Newhaven (which for you non-Brits, is a fishing port on the south coast of England) and set out for a pleasant day on the English Channel. Obviously not us in this photo (we were rather too busy to take any photos), but it gives you an idea of what it was like. After about an hour's enjoyable sailing straight out to sea, the weather began to change, the wind getting stronger and stronger.  I listened to the shipping forecast again, and it was now telling me that we were about to be enveloped in a Force 12 to 14 storm.   Hmmmmm....... ...

While we were in Angola, I kept a blog in which I described more or less everything we did, saw and experienced in that extra-ordinary country.   So rather than rehash it all here in this blog, I have decided to simply post the link to that older blog, so if you are interested in what we did and saw while in Angola, you can read it all there.   Probably more interestingly too, as I wrote it all as it was happening to us. So here is the link to that blog:- http://tony-lotty-at-large.blogspot.com.au/ I hope you find it interesting and even a bit enjoyable.  It was a very profound experience for us both in so many ways!