While the answers are coming, you might want to go over to my author website for another sea story. Enjoy!
Smooth roads and tailwinds,
JT
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Category Archives: sea stories
Latin is not a dead language.
This week I invite you to my author’s blog for a sea story about interpreting at the Second Vatican Council.
Enjoy!
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This week I invite you to enjoy a sea story that ran back on 28 February 2015, edited and posted on my blog at jthine.com. Enjoy!
I’ll be back next week with an article about what wears well (pun intended).
Smooth roads & tailwinds,
Jonathan
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This week, the sea stories on this blog will begin to move. The Freewheeling Freelancer will continue to carry non-fiction about living and working on the road, and about my bicycle travels. Meanwhile, the site jthine.com will host fiction and memoir. Each Saturday, I will post to one site and publish a link on the other.
Sea stories have been favourites on the porch in the evening ever since sailors have had grandchildren or buddies at the local pub. This week, I invite you to read or re-read the account of my growing up as an urban cyclist in Rome during the 1950s and 1960s. https://jthine.com/blog/. Enjoy!
Until next time,
Smooth roads and tailwinds,
Jonathan.
Sea story: Who, him? He’s NATO. (1986)
US Navy HQ, London
Spring of 1986. It is time for the United States and Italy to re-negotiate their Joint Forces Agreement, the document that articulates the details of the military alliance between the two countries. As part of the process, the military delegations of the two allies meet to work on those details. Continue reading
Sea story: Growing up on a bike (1953-1963)
When I was four and five, Mom was the buyer for a national toy company. As you can imagine, we had obscene Christmases, because she could get the latest toys and games for wholesale or less. 
I remember having a pedal-powered Austin car identical to that of Prince Charles (his was green; mine was cream-coloured), and such luxuries. Continue reading
Sea story: Italy, then and now (1956-2019)
Almost exactly three years ago, I posted a piece called “A Tale of Two Cultures”. This week I revisit a tale of two cultures in the same country updating it to bring us to 2019. Enjoy! 