Feeling the the first signs of Fatigue

Sleep is a precious commodity during BOST. Tonight, after writing this, I will get a solitary hour, go on watch between midnight and 4am, then treat myself to 3 hours sleep before getting involved in a Galley fire exercise. That's not so bad, as I will be largely inactive for the rest of the day, but as our programme becomes more and more hectic, people's heads will be dropping on anything soft at any time of the day... if they can get away with it!

Today we had our first 'Thursday War', where we were thrown from port to starboard with up to 40 degrees of roll as we er.... dodged incoming bombs. Quite exciting actually, as we haven't done one of these wars in almost a year now.

So as exciting as it seems, it's already starting to wear me down, and I am already looking forward to my real travels that take place later this year.

I'm going to visit all these places over the next year: France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Brazil, The Falkland Islands, Chile... and if I have my way, China, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil again! So if anyone knows any people in any of these places, or thinks there's something I should definitely not miss out on, please let me know, as I will mostly be on an aimless adventure! Many of these countries are part of 'The Mongol Rally', which I am participating in this year, over the summer. You can track my position on that by visiting http://www.gcgb.org.uk/

But right now it's back to fighting bomber aircraft and losing sleep...