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A carregar... To the Baltic with Bobpor Griff Rhys Jones
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  MiaCulpa | May 21, 2014 |    ) TheoClarke | May 10, 2010 | A lovely, funny, slightly morose narrative of Jones' various journeys around the Baltic with friends Bob and Baines. Particularly appealing was the fact that the boat he goes on is the Undina, which recently features on the excellent TV programme "Three Men On Another Boat" - so even though there was a rather annoying lack of pictures, or even a boat diagram, I could visualise her quite well. It's a charming book - I do like a sailing book, and this is one of the better ones. I'll keep it - Matth3w wants a go with it too, so off it goes onto his ginormous TBR. LyzzyBee | Mar 21, 2008 |  ) uryjm | Sep 3, 2006 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them, as he knew how to mend the engine. And this is their story. Over four long months of applied bickering in a vessel no bigger than a London taxi, they visited most of the geographically interesting restaurants on the Baltic seaboard. They sailed, over, and, even at one point, onto the mysterious heart of the Nordic world. They pushed themselves to the very limits of human endurance, before finally agreeing to wash their sleeping bags on a cool cycle at number six. To the Baltic with Bob is the full account of their stirring journey through the longest heat wave the frozen north has ever suffered; of three men in search of the answer to a troubling question: can you really outmanoeuvre a mid-life crisis by running away to sea? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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What we got was a book that gave me the odd smile but mainly rambled about the author's history of sailing, a description of his yacht, his shock at the high cost of marine maps, the quality of the showers at the sailing club in St Petersburg and the fact he was paying his friends to come sailing with him.
The highlights actually came with references to Rhys Jones's son George, now a young man but about whom I remembered a reference to him as a baby in "Alas Smith and Jones", and Rhys Jones' mentions of his old partner in laughs, the late, great Mel Smith. Still, "To the Baltic with Bob" was a pleasant enough way to pass the time that I probably would have wasted anyway. (