2011-01-24

Arnd

Winter 2010-2011 Vacation Trip 2011-01-24

Monday, January 24, 2011

Originally I had planned on departing for St. Barths along with the crew of Arita, but the weather wasn’t optimal for immediate departure today, plus I had a headache and Rob and Lauren were still waiting for 2 packages to arrive so we got a small rental car and drove off towards the French village named “Cul de Sac“ in search of a distillery called Ma Doudou which they had purchased some bottles of. After a bit of looking around and having Rob ask for directions, we did find a gated community with a little sign showing that we were in the right place, plus the secret code for gaining entrance. The store was quaint and the spiced/flavoured rums were tasty indeed. Rob was disappointed that they didn’t give tours of the distillery or bottling facilities, but that didn’t keep him from purchasing some samples – for medicinal purposes only, of course. After our stop there we had a great lunch with wonderful views of Île Tintamarre in one direction and St. Barths in the other before heading into Philipsburg for some shopping for camera accessories and another stroll through the aisles of Cost-U-Less for boat provisions.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.