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by Jace on Tue May 24th, 2011 at 04:18:05 PM EST
This is the real double dutch
by rootless2 on Fri May 27th, 2011 at 11:00:45 AM EST
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Another good one, Jace. Thanks.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 01:28:52 AM EST
"how much I know" is what made a mostly-vegetarian of me. If we could go back to the family farm, I'd probably change that, but you can't tell how an animal's been treated when looking at its muscle through cellophane.  But if my hosts serve meat, I eat a bit.

Your diary is a lovely read. Thank you.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 11:34:20 AM EST

Nice one.

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 04:06:47 PM EST
A friend recently back from Argentina commented, "They garnish their meat dishes with 2 or 3 other kinds of meat."

He loved Buenos Aires, yet was blown away by the culture and beauty of Bolivia right next door.

I must go.

by Upstate NY on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 04:48:19 PM EST
After 18 months of trolling on a motorcycle travel forum (which includes a lot of travel blogs), yeah, Bolivia is what I'm most looking forward to.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 05:06:23 PM EST
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I have nice memories of those restaurants in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), were for a fixed price, they keep serving you delicious grilled pieces of meat until you say enough...

"L'homme fut sûrement le voeu le plus fou des ténèbres " René Char
by Melanchthon on Thu May 26th, 2011 at 11:17:46 AM EST
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I knew a restaurant like that in Newark, NJ (Brazilian of course).
by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Thu May 26th, 2011 at 12:39:47 PM EST
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Jace, fyi, check this out Here.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 05:11:29 PM EST
Nice. I've been helping muck out a barge lately, that's bad enough! Shipyards are great places to climb about and photograph, if not work.  
by Jace on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 10:05:38 PM EST
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Curacao is an autonomous member state of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, penultimate island west of the Lesser Antilles, though a resident and Crunchyroll member has to remind Crunchyroll tech support every once in a while since a few (of the majority) of their simulcasts licensed to go to the Netherlands are not licensed to Latin America and the Caribbean, and sometimes the ABC islands are erroneously left out of the database.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 07:57:54 PM EST
And Aruba now has an amazing wind farm! (and Curaçao is working on something similar).



Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu May 26th, 2011 at 04:08:29 PM EST
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Quite ~ now how to get them to the Windward Islands.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Thu May 26th, 2011 at 08:48:11 PM EST
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European Tribune - Comments - Double Dutch
If the Marlin is searching for big or unusual freight,

Maybe to move a Too Big To Fail Wall street bank...

"L'homme fut sûrement le voeu le plus fou des ténèbres " René Char

by Melanchthon on Thu May 26th, 2011 at 11:23:28 AM EST
To an offshore location perhaps.
by Jace on Thu May 26th, 2011 at 01:37:47 PM EST
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Where it will see if it can float alone?

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat May 28th, 2011 at 11:14:25 AM EST
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It reminds me the days when I was working on a gas rig in the North Sea. We used to build the platforms with the help of heavy crane barges like this one:



"L'homme fut sûrement le voeu le plus fou des ténèbres " René Char

by Melanchthon on Thu May 26th, 2011 at 05:43:08 PM EST
these diaries are great.
by rootless2 on Fri May 27th, 2011 at 09:28:36 PM EST
It turns out the Marlin is (still) here in NY to pick up seven oil barges and five tugboats. They were sold to a Nigerian company by Reinauer Transportation. They tried to load the equipment onto the Marlin (in the Upper Bay) on Sunday with no luck. It seems quite the process to move a bunch of obsolete equipment.
by Jace on Tue May 31st, 2011 at 12:26:32 PM EST

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