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Description: ISBN 0718146255 / Author: Griff Rhys Jones / Genre: Travel / In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set ... more
To the Baltic with Bob - Griff Rhys Jones ... off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them, as he knew how to mend the engine. And this is their story. Over four long months of applied bickering in a vessel no bigger than a London taxi, they visited most of the geographically interesting restaurants on the Baltic seaboard. They sailed, over, and, even at one point, onto the mysterious heart of the Nordic world. They pushed themselves to the very limits of human endurance, before finally agreeing to wash their sleeping bags on a cool cycle at number six. To the Baltic with Bob is the full account of their stirring journey through the longest heat wave the frozen north has ever suffered; of three men in search of the answer to a troubling question: can you really outmanoeuvre a mid-life crisis by running away to sea?

Newest Review: ... incidents - those being a sailing race the gang take part in the Kiel Canal, and some incidents when high winds caused some ... more

 ... major problems. The smug sailors considered these non-events so regarded Jones's humorous description as desperately trying to create some sense of excitement from something quite ordinary. I am not a sailor at all so this must have been why I found these incidents exciting and very funny. I also thought that the "sailing bits" were explained well without too much jargon but not so simplified as to be patronising. As someone's who knowledge of nautical terms barely exceeds "hello sailor" t...more

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Take a group of middle-aged men and a leaky boat bound for St Petersburg, throw in some bad tempers and churlishness, some prostitutes and a smattering of jokes and you have "To the Baltic with Bob". It's another in the long line of humorous travelogues borne from a challenge or lifelong dream. This time the dream belongs to writer and comedian Griff Rhys Jones, whose idea it was to take his boat across the North Sea, through the Kiel Canal and across the Baltic Sea to St Petersburg in Russia. It must be said at this point that Griff does have years of sailing experience having inherited the bug from his father so this wasn't totally a flight of ...  Read the complete review

 

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