IRISH TIMES – Tall ship tales as far as I was concerned, this was going to be an adventure unparalleled since Vasco da Gama set sail. It didn’t matter that the journey was a mere five days long, a crossing from Roscoff in Brittany to Dublin, through well-mapped seas with full creature comforts. Oh no. My maiden voyage aboard the French training shipBelem , a three-masted barque, would be a perilous undertaking. Read More
