OPOE
Old Person’s Overseas Experienc
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Hey…we’re back on board Innocenti after nine months away. We are no longer home-owners. The only real estate we own is this 42-foot little piece of Aotearoa floating around in Malaysia. Let me attempt to summarise the goings-on of our time away in a single paragraph. Here goes…. We ran out money and couldn’t re-tennant…
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We’re enjoying 18 degrees instead of 33 degrees, sleeping with a blanket and duvet, instead of lying in a puddle of sweat. I’m wearing jumpers and long trousers, not shorts and teeshirts, and waking up to the song of tui, not hornbills and Macaque monkeys. We’re back in Auckland until January, and it was so…
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The landscape in Eastern Indonesia has consisted of dry brown islands and clear blue skies. Then it changed as we neared the equator to lush jungle covered islands and massive puffy cumulus clouds that tend to drop their load in the evening in the form of a cooling squall. We haven’t set foot on land…
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We’re nearly ready to drop the lines and embark on this odyssey, this OPOE (Old Person’s Overseas Adventure) as dubbed by my workmates. The preparations, the cost, and the all-consuming nature of this project! Did I mention the cost? There’s the small issue of how we’re going to pay for it, what to do with…
Cruising Innocenti 