Wherever We Go

Off the southeast coast of India lies the island nation of Sri Lanka.  Lanka means island and Sri means fabulous.  This fabulous island is a land of recent turmoil and unrest that is living in the past and striving for the future.  Sri Lanka, formally known as Ceylon until 1972, has obvious close cultural, social, and economic ties with India which date back even earlier than the times of Portuguese, Dutch and British control of and influences in the area.   All of these influences still exist and you can see it in the ancient architectures, the languages, the religions, as well as the people.   Welcome to Sri Lanka I mentioned turmoil in my heading because Sri Lanka has come into some recent unrest.  From the civil war in 1983 to it's anti-Muslim rioting in 2018 to the political unrest when the Prime Minister fired the President, and the Parliament was suspended in 2018.  This move was and is still to be fought in court...

Well, Vialula and I are back to the northern hemisphere as of the evening of the 22nd of March.  To be exact we are 1 degree or 85 miles north of the line as we come into Singapore.  Take a look at the picture of the screen shot and you will see where we are and how far we have come.  This log runs continuously and we enjoy seeing the information about the ships log run we go from place to place.  17,210 nautical miles as of then. Now I am not a sophisticated man.  Most everyone knows that and that is just fine with me.  Now it is very apparent that Singapore has a lot to offer people but this place also has a certain feel that just doesn't sit quite right to me.  I know I don't have the right to say that after just two days but it was just different to me than say, Auckland or Sydney.   This isn't good or bad, right or wrong,  just my take. So take what I say with a grain of salt.... The Sling: Anyone ever had a singapore ...