2011-02-05

Arnd

Winter 2010-2011 Vacation Trip 2011-02-05

Saturday, February 05, 2011

Due to the distance we were from Basseterre and the unlikely chance of getting a hitchhiked ride for 3 we took Zanshin I to Basseterre and then motored the dinghy ashore to clear into St. Kitts and rent a car for two days. The clearing in process was much easier than I’d read in my (dated) guide and we only needed to visit one office and drop a form off in another office and we were on our way. The cruise ship terminal is full of stores catering to cruise ship guests (jewellery and gaudy clothing and expensive trinkets) and we departed for Brimstone Hill Fortress by car. The fortress is very impressive and we spent a long time wandering the different sections and taking numerous pictures. After we’d filled up our memory cards we descended the hill (by car) and encountered just two of the island’s 20,000 monkeys but hope to see some more later on. We completed our drive around the island and picked up some groceries before Rob and Lauren drove the car to the dinghy dock at White House and I went back to Zanshin I and motored back to the anchorage.

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.