Boats

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Gone fishing

by Cassie Marketos

Ko phayam — Have to hurry. Electricity only a few hours a day and wi-fi for even less then that. What to prioritize telling you? The squid boats at night, halogen lights as boisterous as a baseball field’s. Longboat fishing during a long afternoon. The beach is cut by a river. If you try to come home when the tide is in, you have to swim across. Beause of this, they advise you to travel sans electronics. ...

Boats

Bath time.

by Cassie Marketos

Semporna — Me & E. It took three days for us to know each other’s secrets, but not yet the secret idiosyncrasies that are unconscious and observable. There weren’t a lot of places to go, but we managed, spl...

literature, history, Boats

Thursday morning, the 7th. When I go on deck, we are very close to the bank.

by Gustave Flaubert

Ash shorafa wa al ateyat — Thursday morning, the 7th. When I go on deck, we are very close to the bank. The color of the earth is exactly the color of the Nubian girls I saw at the Slaves Bazaar. We haul the boat with ropes; t...

Travel, Boats

Burano, Italy

by Red Tango

Venice — Burano is a day trip by boat from Venice…the island clearly has a “theme” to color coordinate the buildings and even hang laundry out that compliments the colors. There are fresh flowers everywhere,...

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