Before Dry Dock (The Sun, docked in Santo Thomas, Guatemala):

After Dry Dock (The Sun, docked in Cozumel, Mexico, on the 26th of January)

I have to say I love the new painting on the hull… it makes the ship look warmer!

This boat on the sea side seems to have been transformed into a house… unless the house was designed to look like a boat in the first place!

Car tires in the sea just off the port in Santo Thomas, Guatemala.

One of the restaurants, on the sea…

A photo of inside one of Cozumel’s bar… pretty wall decorations with lots of suns and moons, as well as the coconut made light shades… so pretty…

One more photo of Switzerland and then back to my current location! But I have to show you this view of the lake near Geneva from the French side …

During my 2 weeks break of the dry dock, I got to discover Geneva in Switzerland. Lovely place!

And around Geneva, on the French side, the country side …

Just a short message to tell everyone, a very happy new year 2007 and may your wishes come true. Of course, for one’s wishes to come true one must work at it. But I also, we must really, I think, stop for a minute and wonder what it is that we truly should wish for.

Indeed, how easy to say I want this or that, an object, a toy, a house, or even someone. How more difficult it is to really wish for a type of life we want to live, the kind of values we want to carry, the type of person that we wish to be. Maybe just learning to really know ourselves is a good start to knowing what we want and how we would like to change. Life is in constant motion, we always shift in ways that are sometimes so surprising.

My life at this moment is still so full of uncertainties I feel like I am standing on top of an enormous mountain, about to jump into the open. I am not sure if I have an elastic attached to my belt. I am not sure if I will be able to fly if I open my arms. Or maybe there will be so many comfortable cushions just below my sight that I will not get hurt at all. But of course it could be I am just being so optimistic and I am going to crash to my death in only a moment. Who can tell? But I so wish there would be someone, anyone, to tell me what is the perfect option for me, to tell me what to do in order for things to be ok, or just to tell me I will be ok. Is it the right thing to wish for? Maybe I should wish instead to be able to judge what to do for myself. (If this does not make any sense, please forgive me and note that it is 4 am right now, I am unable to sleep and I am pretty sure tomorrow I will look back upon this post just as puzzled as you are now - but right now it feels just such a helpful description.)

I think this year I would like to wish for less confusion, more simplicity, more truth. Even if the truth can sometimes hurt so much. Even if simple does not always mean better. I want to be more truthful, and be surrounded by more truthful people. I want to stop getting my feelings so mixed up, give up my anger and my other unhealthy negative feelings, and just focus on the simple joys of life. A nice meal. A nice rest. A nice person to talk to. And I wish that I will have the wisdom not to expect more from life than just those simple things.

All the best to you all, and lots of love…