Two names that we have become very familar with over the last few weeks. We have been using a couple of cool websites (well, cool for this one purpose – dull as dishwater for anyone else, I am sure!): http://www.sailwx.info and http://www.vesseltracker.com
Our stuff was all loaded by Crown into a container, which was then punted by truck down to Southampton. From there, it was loaded onto the first – the CMA CGM Verlaine, an open deck container ship which sailed to Bruge, to finish getting loaded, then cugged it’s way along the english channel, down through the Bay of Biscay, across the Med to the Mouth of Suez.. along the canal, then out into the Red Sea. It docked at Jedda, then headed out into the Indian Ocean, and east towards the Port of Kelang (Kuala Lumpur).
At this point, our container was unloaded onto the dock, and verlaine continued on to China to pick up it’s next load of stuff en route to Europe. In the mean time, the second ship – the APL Zircon. I don’t have a picture of her, so here’s a picture of her sister ship – the appropriately named APL Scotland.
Zircon left Kelang on the 9th July and began her journey south towards the Port of Fremantle (or ‘Freo’ to the locals), where she is due to arrive on the 15th July…
along with all of our stuff! now we just need to wait on Aussie customs poring over everything and deciding what they do and don’t like the look of, and we should get the Wii back, and the Telly.. and our bikes… and the couch…
sigh. I kinda miss our stuff. very Tyler Durden in the whole ‘the things you own, end up owning you’ I know, but dammit, I just want to have a comfy couch to sit on and watch a movie on something other than my PC monitor.
In the meantime, Jen and I have been like a couple of explorers, giving new names to stuff.
First was when we made a spaghetti bolognese from some minced kangaroo.. we could’t quite decide – should it be a boloroo? or a kanganese? in the end, we settled on… Roo-gu! pure genius.
Not as cool as today’s though – we spotted another Skippy-related roadside incident, and Jen came up with a new name for them.. Roo-dkill. heh.
I’ll get me coat…