Port visitors to the MV Logos For 6 months when I first joined the MV Logos my work was in the deck department as an AB ('able-bodied') seaman. Then for almost a year I was a member of two consecutive training programmes each lasting 5-6 months. Long before the widespread use of computers the programme was …
Strangers and Pilgrims – Coming Home
For some weeks in 1979 I visited what was then Western Samoa in the South Pacific. An independent state it became known in 1997 simply as Samoa. Not to be confused with the American territory of American Samoa which lay to the south east! W. Samoa consists mainly of two inhabited islands in the midst …
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
Crowds visiting the on board book exhibition on MV Logos in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Jan 1987 In early 1987 Elisabeth and I were living on board the MV Logos. For both of us it had been our home previously before we got married. This latest period we had spent nearly 2 years travelling …
8 Miles Until 10pm
The above sign I have passed many times on the main road between Glasgow and Perth whilst heading to the north of Scotland. Each time I wonder if this is a window to a new dimension. Space and time merge on approaching. I have bored my wife at my childlike (she would say childish) enthusiasm …
The Metaphorical Trail Runner
'Leaps and Bounds' by Elisabeth Grant** Long distance trail running has informed other areas of my life. It doesn't apply just to running. The same can be said of many areas of human endeavour. They can teach us wider lessons than the activity itself. Over the past 15 - 20 years I have read books …
Allan Grant 