When finished in June, he joined Milvina in Bergen, in Norway.
Most of the sailing photos are on the summer sailing pages
This one shows Michael adjusting the battens in our mainsail.
He opened his own law office in Vancouver in November, and was promptly in court in the Occupy Vancouver legal scrap.
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Michael sailed/railed the green section on the left before arriving in St Petersburg, then to Moscow, Ulan Bator to Beijing.
Service along the way varied from rather basic to quite good.
Like most visitors to Russia, Michael took one of the better trains, costing about $800. He could have taken a train for about $120, but was concerned (probably rightly) that is would approximate a cattle car.
Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, is a city of contrasts, with old building like this one beside modern office blocks.
In the country, life is quite primitive. This guy is to dipping water from a well to water his visitors, and the goats in the semi-desert.
Several
days exploring Mongolia included travel by packhorse and by camel, as well
as the more practical, but less photoworthy, rented vans.