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Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn from 37,000 feet.
The South East coast of Italy in the Ionian Sea / Mediteranian.
Luxury Yachts and Super Yachts surrounding a small group of islands off the central east coast of Italy.
Switzerland - Not sure exactly where, but I think it may be the Pilatus factory and airfield - If you know otherwise, feel free to let me know.
Southern Italy with square mile upon mile of poly tunnels for farming - Like it isn't hot or sunny enough there already...
Sally set sail on Sunday/Monday morning on the delivery leg to take the 68ft ocean going yacht, the Uniquely Singapore up to the starting point for the Clipper round the world race in Hull, Humberside. And as of this morning is currently docked in Dover along with Sit Robin Knox Johnson and Hilary Lister.
As I have mentioned previously, we are hosting her journal here for you to all to keep up to date and hopefully get some amazing images from her voyage. Why - Because we are official sponsors...
So here are a few snippets and links to the 'live' journal we are hosting for her...
I've never been one for autograph albums but I'm slightly disappointed that I've not invested in one. Not only did I accost/meet Sir Robin Knox Johnson, with whom I shared a tale or two about sore bottoms, but Crew Singapore bumped into Hilary Lister a quadraplegic sailor who has literally just arrived in Dover after her circumnavigation of Britain.
I'm feeling the hot flush of the tired. I'm experiencing waves of nausea and a general disquiet that can only be associated with our arrival in Dover.... not because of Dover, by the way, more because our delivery has been knackering already and we've only been away from Gosport for a day and 'arf! It's been tough though, I'm not complaining but I'm convinced our watch draw the short straw having to wake at 2am for a four hour stint till dawn.
Today I received a very, very, very light envelope at the studio. It was from a company called Syncreon Technology, but I was pretty sure they were my Apple order details on the label.
Now I was hoping that my anticipated version of OS X Snow Leopard had arrived, as we have had a bank holiday here in the UK and there is no business post here to the studio office on Saturdays.
So very patient I have been and upon arriving was very surprised to see a manila padded envelope, ironically branded 'featherpost' with a very official business label slapped on to the front of it. On picking it up it so light and flexible that I was a little surprised and upon opening it, even more so. As inside the only thing it contained was air and that was it.
Now I know that the install for Snow Leopard is supposed to be light, and I know the MacBook Air is stunningly light, but I was rather impressed that the Snow Leopard I received weighed in at nothing at all and had been packaged in a 'featherpost' product.
Sadly after opening the package, all of my Macs were still running plain old Leopard. So I gues it wasn't another one of Jobs' wonder products let out in to the wild... ;-)
On the label was a return address, so I looked them up on Google, rang the support number and was even more surprised when I was asked to provide my Dell order or customer number before being transferred to a human. I only have Macs here...
After letting the options time out, a human picked up and once again asked me for my Dell number - After explaining I had no Dell products, I enquired whether they looked after Apple too as I was expecting a delivery from them - At which point he gave me a number to call - Which turned out to be the Apple Store.
Some very polite and helpful French chap then confirmed my details and has issued a new delivery via courier straight away - Now that's the Apple I know.
So fingers crossed, in a few days I can get my hands on this zippiness that the Snow Leopard team are so proud of.
We here at Ginkgo Studios are very proud to be official sponsors of Sally Kettle in her part in the Clipper Round the World Race 09-10 on board the Uniquely Singapore. Not only will we be providing updates and images from her voyage here on the Ginkgo Blog, but we will also be hosting her official round the world journal here on our servers.
For more information on Sally and her previous adventures, including rowing across the Atlantic (twice) and her public speaking and modelling career, click here to have a look at Sally's site.
More to come very soon...
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