Category: English Blog Posts (164 results)
Suddenly in the Caribbean
Blinded by the beauty, arrived, finally there, a feeling of release, satisfied, thankful, fantastic, unbelievable, beautiful, magical, exciting, relieved, shattered, overwhelmed and surreal. These adjectives were named by some crew members when I asked them to describe the moment of… read more
The little things humans need
To be satisfied, a human being needs a few things. There are needs like sleep or food, but also other things humans need for life. For example, music. In order to fulfill these requirements on our ship, we have our… read more
How crossing the Atlantic feels like a short weekend trip
The Atlantic Ocean, a gate to the Caribbean, and we are sailing through it. Here, you really get to know yourself and your limits. Limits like going to your night watch and trying not to fall asleep because of the… read more
Our own small school
One could think that school aboard the Thor Heyerdahl is like normal school, only that you have less lessons and you are on a ship. However, if you make the mistake of comparing the Thor to a normal school and… read more
A different type of cooking
On board of a three-mast-topsail-schooner the crew works hard to keep the system running. While working, the human body burns a lot of energy which must be absorbed again. That’s why every ship has a galley, a kitchen on the… read more
Clean, cleaner, the cleanest…
Blue, green, yellow, white, black and red buckets and different colored rags… Everybody knows what that means! It means it’s time to clean the ship again…! In order to guarantee that every part of the ship is as clean as… read more
Five square metres of problems?
Today’s blog is about something that small it didn’t even feel like one page would fit in it when I first came here. It is about the life in our cabins and our bunks, what the challenges are, how we… read more
Another Planet?
Have you ever been to another planet? Where nothing seems to grow and rocks formed in strange shapes dominate the landscape. Almost no sound can be heard, except of the slight whistling of the wind. Sometimes there is the rustling… read more
Day and night, on deck there’s light – watches on board
As we saw the Thor Heyerdahl for the first time, some weeks ago at the wharf in Kiel, many of us felt a great admiration for such a magnificent and complex ship. We couldn’t imagine to know the names and… read more
Seasickness – I´m going to be sick
Rough – that was how you could describe the sea in the past few days. After leaving Kiel we travelled through the Kiel Canal and headed towards the North Sea. During this time everybody was still excited that our big… read more