books, boats and bass notes

Wednesday 13th September 2006

1:14 p.m. It was so quiet last night that by the time 11 o’clock came around there were only two people in the bar, which worked out well as I managed to skip my last set and descend upon the show-bar to listen to the sounds of the new resident band, 4 and More, who I discovered are very good, they are a five-piece band and they all play live.

Further to my talk yesterday about cruise ships, I noticed that there was a small one moored up next to us in the harbour in Hull yesterday. I say small because it was about the same size as our boat.



Also I was looking back through the pictures that I took shortly after I first started working on here, and noticed that another cruise ship called The Regatta is visible in the first picture that I took (from our mooring at the Zeebrugge terminal) to the right of the photo, behind the cranes and containers.

One thing I forgot to mention in my entry yesterday was that on Monday evening shortly after I took the photos of that sunset, there was a small schooner sailing nearby the ship. It must have had an engine as it was going too fast to be relying simply on the wind. Plus I don’t remember seeing anyone rowing! I didn’t have my camera with me at the time so I took a photo of it using my mobile phone which isn’t brilliant quality but you get the idea.



I finished reading The Solitaire Mystery yesterday night. Although I enjoyed it, it wasn’t as captivating as Sophie’s World.

Thursday 14th September 2006

12:22 p.m. Had a good night last night, it was fairly busy all evening and good mixture of people which is what I prefer. Included in that were another group of German students, who were listening intently and gave me several requests. One of them left me a small tip as well which was very nice!