Snow, Salt & Sand

The last month has being quite the eventful one, especially in the job area as I have picked up another job on a yacht as a deckhand again. I'm giving it one more chance, to see weather it's for me or probably more to the point if the people in the industry are not all......well like the last lot.
It's a 52 metre motor yacht with quite the wicked cruising itinerary and is a bit of a world cruiser. I have joined it in the Caribbean where it will be cruising around for roughly one more month before heading through the Panama Canal and making its way up the west coast of America to Alaska over 2 months, then who knows where.

I was lucky enough to have to go to Paris for a few days to go for my visa interview to get a US Business Visa, which all went well and had a chance to see the sights of Paris and see some French theatre and attend a travel group with Pierre who I was Couchsurfing with.
As alot of people say that the French are quite rude I tied to tackle it with an open mind and yes I think they can be quite rude; in particular Paris, but no more than some of the other European countries, say Italy and like any big city Paris has got the big city attitude. But what a beautiful it is; quite romantic though. Great if you've got some hottie with you, less so if you don't and especially with a weeks to Valentines Day.

Before heading up to Paris I had a chance to see snow for the very first time; proper snow, although I didn't go for a ski but was still quite cool seeing the fluffy powder.
I also had a chance to do some driving on the icy roads where my normal driving skills were no good to me at all and managed to plough the hire car into a wall of snow after overtaking at speed just before a blind corner, which was rattling enough but then realising that we were just a metre from tipping over the edge of the mountain and tumbling down the side of the mountain!!

So am now in the Caribbean in just the nick of time as the funds were at critical level and just about to max out the second credit card. Now the steep and fast learning curve begins and where I must adapt to the "5 Star Silver Service" yachtie Jason, which I have to say has never been found before!

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