Day 6

Air / Water temperature: 18°C (7°C at night) / 16°C

Wind direction / Bft: East / 2-3

Area: AMNIS EFFASCINATUS (many obstacles) – Nautical chart showing the route

Combuse: Char (500 g) remove intestines and gills (do not scale), rinse and pat dry. Slice 100 g carrots, cut 100 g leeks in wheels, 100 g fennel into thin rings, 1 onion into strips, crush 4 cloves garlic. Put into 3 liters of water, add 3 stalks of parsley, 3 sprigs thyme, 2 bay leaves, 20 white peppercorns slightly crashed, 50 g salt. Bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Add 1 dl white wine vinegar and 1 dl white wine. Pour in fish and boil briefly. Reduce heat and simmer 9 minutes. (More recipes from the Chief cook of «PS Narina»)

At the beginning of every great journey that I have undertaken on my own, I have unfailingly experienced a mild ache of melancholia: a feeling that one is leaving behind everything one has always held dear and precious. One quite believes that one is committing a grave mistake – almost as if one’s trampling on one’s own life with one’s careless strides of curiosity. The destination that you are striving to reach then appears to hold no appeal, to indeed be a place of danger or boredom, of confinement and hardship – it appears to extol the virtues of Paradise but, actually, it is the worse place, the place less desirable.

Soon however, when the journey has taken on a certain form of reality, the first rays of sunlight begin to penetrate this mist of melancholia, this cloudy concoction of life’s droplets of Vermouth, as it were. Now, one looks up and sees – and, simultaneously, life comes into sight.

I am sure that ants need to first stand still before they can take their gaze off the ground. From where this conviction comes, I cannot really say.

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