While in the UK Rika and I have been doing talks on our lifestyle and the rigours of ocean cruising. During our four trans Atlantic voyages sailing over 20,000 together we have had a mid ocean knockdown, survived an uncharted sand bar on the African skeliton coast. Through art and music we have been entertained by some of the world's wealthy and famous, and known the companionship of a shared meal in a fishing village on the west coast of Africa. In short we have been having fun.