Kiel Canal by night.
Kiel Canal by day.
Our passage through the canal was peaceful, and pleasant everything went smoothly the pilots were in good form, the first one looked a bit like old Steptoe and probably saw some action back in WWII, a cheerful old "gubbe"!
One pilot even broke the golden rule (Don't mention the war!) he started talking about borders after "Ze World War" I was gobsmacked and had a hard job keeping the image of John Cleese strutting around out of my head. Again a friendly pilot, the last pilot we had 5 in total looked like Boris Becker and started talking about the Airbus factory which we passed, they had recently done an exercise to evacuate a plane, the limit is 90 seconds to get everyone off, they got 300 people off in 82 seconds, two broken legs, 7 broken ribs and dozens bruised but all off safely, I wonder if they were a good representation of a plane load or if it was the German stunt team that got off, 82 seconds is not a lot of time!
Anyway now we are sailing down the Elbe away from Hamburg on our way to Brofjorden, Sweden.
Reading Hunter S. Thompson's (author of Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas)
Kingdom of Fear what a great book, he has a style that is frighteningly real. feel free to borrow after I'm finished.
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