dinsdag 15 mei 2012

May 14th, only 10 more days to go

I'm almost done gathering all the stuff that I need to take with me. Of course there were some last minute things I had to pick up at Vrolijk's, well, that trip ended very differently then expected!

After collecting my stuff at Vrolijk, I decided to walk over to the harbor and sat down at the Pasta Company. It was just the perfect day to sit outside in the sun and have a beer :-)
After a while a guy walks by and sits down at the table next to me, 15 minutes later two girlfriends come to join him. One of them asks if she could take the seat next to me so she too could enjoy the sun. We started chatting and for some reason, I don't know how or why :-), we start talking about sailing.

It turns out that Jantine is very much into sailing too and recently had been sailing up and down the East coast of Australia :-)
Of course I told her about my trip so far and my upcoming plans. She thought it to be really cool to cross the Ocean. Anyway, since I still had an open spot for the leg from the Azores back to Scheveningen, I told her she could join us if she wanted.

I didn't took the exact time but it can't be more then a few minutes before she agreed to come and join us! Wow, I guess this was just one of those special moments, totally out off the blue, but for some reason meant to happen :-) Life is beautiful when you live it!
So together with Monique and Willem Jelle we've got the crew complete for the last part to finish the trip around the Atlantic.
I guess it's time to go for it!

Next update will be from St Martin :-)