Arnd
January 22, 2012
12:00 am
2012 Blog, Original SV-Zanshin Website, Saint Barthélemy

2012-01-22

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-01-22

We had a late breakfast today, then a short snorkel to the edges of the Colombier anchorages where Wolfgang discovered that he and snorkels don’t get along. After that we motored into Gustavia and proceeded to anchor there in order to clear in and go shopping ashore. The clearing in part was quite easy, but everything – including restaurants and cafés were closed up tight on Sunday. We did find a restaurant that was open and serving lunch and after stoking up on energy we walked up the hill to see the aircraft approach and land – an impressive sight as the aircraft come over the roundabout at the top of the hill and then dive down towards the very short and sloping runway.
By the time we’d done our share of sightseeing and weighted anchor to return to our place in Colombier it was approaching dusk and after getting the mooring ball (on the first attempt, once again) we were ready for dinner from the BBQ.

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.