Header image: Henri Lloyd in St Katharine Docks before the race start

A night in the White Swan

The night before Crew Allocation we were due to go to a talk by Ellen MacArthur. This was cancelled at short notice due to illness.  Too late to change travel plans, I travelled down to Portsmouth straight after work.  I met Mum and Dad and, hungry,  we ate in the George.

There was a post in the Clipper Facebook group about a meet up in the White Swan pub near the Guildhall instead of the talk.

One of the problems I have with Facebook, but this one I suspect I’m going to have to get over, is associating it with reality.  So I wasn’t really sure that there was going to be any Clipper people there at all.

That was why I didn’t mention it to Mum and Dad when I suggested walking up to the Guildhall.

Of course when we got there, it was full of people wearing red Clipper jackets, and we just had to go in, didn’t we?

ANITA SAILS AGAIN