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SHIPSLOG supplemental …..experience, for once, raw masculinity, honest and straight talking men who will look you in the eye and smile, and walk with Greenlands beautiful and strong women who are as confident and capable as their men. Your life will be never the same again.

NorthaboutShips log1 Comment03/10/2016

As we prepare this evening to depart Greenland I’d like to share with you that I am reminded of the well know poem by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, where he describes two paths before him in a forest; I shall be telling this with a sigh… ‘Somewhere ages and ages hence Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference’….

Fellow travellers, I have seen some lands and met some characters  in my time, and coming from New Zealand, I am pretty much spoilt with a grand country, in Aoteraoa, However, I have some sincere and serious-given advice for you: Beg, borrow or steal the airfare to Greenland, come now, while you can, walk amongst its utterly magnificent mountains and gorges, shake the hands of its proud and resourceful inhabitants, experience, for once, raw masculinity, honest and straight talking men who will look you in the eye and smile, and walk with Greenlands beautiful and strong women who are as confident and capable as their men. Your life will be never the same again.

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Bob Wilson
03/10/2016 17:26

Looking at the surface winds, gotta be going like a bat outta hell! Good luck!

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