Choices
You have heard of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Now you can apply that principle to me - Yorkshire Pudding this Christmas Eve. CHOICE ONE The flight to South Africa was trouble-free. Straight down to Johannesburg then an internal flight to Cape Town where taxi driver Mohan Lal was waiting to whisk me down to the docks. "The Jolly Puffin" is a more substantial boat than I had imagined. I guess it needs to be if it is expected to tackle the notoriously temperamental waves of The South Atlantic. Several other bloggers and blog visitors were waiting down on the quay and there was much handshaking and hugging before we were shown to our berths. I am sharing a tiny cabin with Jennifer from Florence, South Carolina. If has been a terrific delight to meet her after so long. No doubt we will know each other a lot better after the voyage ahead. Six days to Tristan da Cunha. We are on our way. As Rod Stewart sang, "We are sailing stormy waters/ To be near you to b...