Are you still here?

Got an email from Lonely Planet telling me not to feel too bad about being stuck in the Caribbean, because of all the great footage I’d be getting. I didn’t have the heart to tell them I sat in an modern office all day working on a computer like a chump.

So another day of phone calls, shipping timetables and website after website. Dino, Hugh and Lorna were on the case and eventually we were all left playing the waiting game.

I did my sums and there’s an outside chance that I could make the Eimskip boat from Canada to Iceland on 8th March…

IF I can get on the ‘Linge Trader’ to Jamaica;

IF I can get the ‘Pamplona’ to Costa Rica on Monday;

IF I make every bus connection to Key West in Florida and get there from Costa Rica in less than 5 days;

IF I can pay for a day trip to Cuba and back;

IF I can make it from Florida to Halifax in time, and;

IF Eimskip are still willing to take me!

That’s a LOT of ‘ifs’…

I felt that it was only fair that I cooked dinner for my hosts, so Ken and I headed over to the supermarket and I bought all the stuff I’d need for a good old-fashioned Spag Bol and I cooked up a storm. Actually, I ended up cooking enough for 8 people, not 3, but hey-ho daddio – it better to have too much than too little.