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    More Stories of Time Zones and Containers
    More Stories of Time Zones and Containers
    More Stories of Time Zones and Containers
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    More Stories of Time Zones and Containers

    By Maria Staal

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    A chemical spill out of a container and a collision with another ship - the adventures of life on the high seas continue in 'More Stories of Time Zones and Containers'.

    A collection of 16 previously untold short stories 'More Stories' is a fitting sequel to 'Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day'. The authors recalls further adventures on board the Serenity River, FTK Kowloon and Galactic Star, as these large container ships travel around the world.
    So how quickly does one become seasick in a lifeboat?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFTK Publishing
    Release dateApr 25, 2011
    ISBN9780955734441
    More Stories of Time Zones and Containers
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    Maria Staal

    I’m an indie writer and publisher, who has published five books. I have spent almost ten years travelling around the world, but fell in love with the city of York in England, where I lived for four years. Now I’m back in my native Netherlands, but am able to pretend I’m still in York by writing a cosy mystery series set in this beautiful city. This mystery series is published under my penname Annie Appleton.Next to writing fiction, I blog about being a self-published author, while also working part-time and gathering ideas for more books.

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      More Stories of Time Zones and Containers - Maria Staal

      MORE STORIES OF TIME ZONES AND CONTAINERS

      By Maria Staal

      Published by FTK Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Maria Staal

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      www.mariastaal.com

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Equator

      The Hitchhiker

      Fun Ride in the Lifeboat

      Focused on Food

      The Refinery

      The Tower of Babel

      Fishing with a Twist

      Basketball

      A Windy Afternoon in Piraeus

      Hitching a Ride at Fos sur Mer

      TV Trouble

      Rounding the Cape

      Three People and a Tuk-Tuk

      Another Police Car Ride

      Just like they do on TV

      Under Attack

      PREFACE

      Those of you who read my previous book, Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day, know that I had quite a few adventures while working on container ships for six months.

      During the writing of Time Zones, it soon became clear, however, that I wouldn’t be able to put all the stories in the book. Some stories simply didn’t fit into the timeline, while others were left out to keep the momentum going.

      Sixteen of those stories and anecdotes have now been collected together in this new book, More Stories of Time Zones and Containers. Some of the stories, like ‘Fun Ride in the Lifeboat’, ‘Hitching a ride in Fos sur Mer’ and ‘Under Attack’, were briefly mentioned in the Time Zones book, but are now elaborated on. Others, like ‘The Refinery’, ‘A Windy Afternoon in Piraeus’ and ‘Just like they do on TV’ are adventures and anecdotes which have not been mentioned before.

      It’s not necessary to have read my Time Zones book to be able to enjoy this collection of stories. If, however, you keep wondering what on earth I was doing on those container ships, I can only advise you to get a copy of that book to find out.

      Maria Staal

      EQUATOR

      Five pairs of eyes were intently focused on the little screen of the GPS device, watching as the numbers on the screen slowly ticked down to zero. Doing this seemed a rather odd thing to do, but we had come to the bridge of the Galactic Star that Sunday afternoon especially to see it happen.

      Outside, the weather was fantastic - warm and sunny, with a bright blue sky and a sea as smooth as a mirror. We were in the Karimata Strait, a stretch of water that connects the Java Sea in Indonesia, to the South China Sea and were on our way from Fremantle in Australia, to Singapore.

      The event that had drawn the passengers to the bridge that afternoon was our expected crossing of the Equator. To witness it, we had hurriedly drunk our cups of tea and ate our pieces of Sunday cake so we could get to the bridge before the numbers on the GPS reached zero. I had brought my camera with me as I was planning to take a picture of the screen when we passed the Equator.

      ‘You had better keep a close eye on it,’ the second officer said, as he looked over our shoulders at the GPS device. ‘We are moving northwards, so the latitude for the Equator will only be displayed for about a second.’

      I nodded and watched as the latitude ticked down from 00°04.001’S to 00°03.999’S, my camera poised for action.

      ‘How long before we will actually pass the Equator?’ Anna, the Australian passenger, asked.

      After a quick mental calculation, the second officer said, ‘At this speed, four latitude minutes would be about twelve real minutes.’

      ‘Twelve minutes! But then we don’t have to keep staring at the GPS,’ Marco, Anna’s husband, remarked. ‘We can relax for at least another ten minutes!’ He put his video camera down, which he had held ready for action, and moved away from the device.

      Margaret and Bill, the English passengers, stepped back as well, but Anna and I kept staring at the little screen for a bit longer - the numbers ticking down steadily.

      More relaxed, Marco and Bill wandered off to the wing of the bridge. There, in the bright sunshine, Marco took a little handheld GPS reader out of his pocket and showed it to Bill. Anna took her eyes of the ship’s GPS and looked at the two men through the window. After Marco had fiddled for a bit with some of the buttons, he and Bill checked out the readings on the little device.

      ‘Marco took that thing with him on this trip, to check how it measures up to the ship’s more accurate equipment,’ Anna said with a smile.

      ‘And does it?’ I asked.

      ‘I don’t know really.’ She shrugged her shoulders. ‘I don’t think he has taken it to the bridge before.’

      The two men came back inside.

      ‘According to this thing we are getting really close to the Equator,’ Marco said with a grin, holding his GPS reader in the air.

      ‘You are kidding,’ Anne countered.

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