Noon-to-noon
run 158nm.
At
08.45 GMT we crossed the prime meridian 4130nm south of our home port
Greenwich. Too early to toast Neptune with a tot of rum – we
saluted him with a cup of tea.
We're
back in the western hemisphere once more having crossed the anti
meridian in Fiji almost eight years ago.
By
a quirk of coincidence it is also ten years to the day since David
proposed to me. We were standing on the Meridian of Greenwich the
observatory. He chose the location because wherever we sailed our
charts would always show 'Degrees from Greenwich'. My husband is a
romantic. Could he have arranged this too?
A
special day meant earned a small gin and tonic at sundown before
dinner of goujons of amberjack fillet with tartar sauce.
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