Its funny how life often repeats itself ...
Trip Start
Apr 25, 2002
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Trip End
Ongoing
Antibes, France
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
So here I am back in Antibes where it all started 6 months ago. Walking the docks at sparrows fart, flat broke, looking for any morsel of daywork, or better yet, a permanent position on a yacht travelling to the Caribbean for the winter season. Only this time its nearly winter, its raining today and only the totally insane persist with this folly. It wasnt supposed to be like this. I hanged up my chamois when I left Basic Logic last week with the intention of doing some European travel. I should be in Barcelona, dancing the tango with a young spanish seductress, whilst sipping sangria and casually grazing on tapas. But no.
After the wild and crazy parties of Porto Cervo, David and I delivered the yacht back to its home port of Sanremo. We visited the old haunts and set the town alight like only we no how, then I was paid up, in cash, and sent on my way, hungover, with a freshly acquired italian leather jacket and crocodile skin belt. In less than two days, before i had the chance to bank my earnings, the house where I am staying in the Cap d'Antibes was broken into and I was robbed of all my cash. Everything. 4000€.
4000€.
4000€.
F**K.
I felt sick. What can I do.
f**k.
So here I am. I have two weeks to find a job and hopefully earn back some of the lost cash before my return ticket to Australia expires. If I got on another yacht I could be on my way to Palma, Gran Canaria, St Lucia or the British Virgin Islands. Or if not I will return to Sydney with nothing but great memories, a lingering bitter aftertaste of the french riviera, a newly acquired italian leather jacket (perfect for an Aussie summer!) and of a course, one crocodile skin belt.
