We didn't mean to go to sea

This book was a very exciting story for me. In this story, their adventure continued for one night but there were some happening during the night. I read this book through at one go. I checked the auther, Arthur Ransome. He is a famous novelist in UK and he always wrote stories based on real life. So isn't this book his story based on his life?

What do you think is the most interesting or exciting way to travel? Think of one good thing and one bad thing about each of these wasy of travelling, then put them in the order that you prefer, begining with the one you like best.

It depends on where I will go travel, but I think the best way is on foot, because I can see sightseeing aria thourouly , touch a lot of things, and talk to a lot of local people. Maybe the most reason why I choose on foot is I just like walking.

I think the worst way is on a small sailing boat. When I was a high school student, I joined a rowing club. Every summer, we took place a summer camp at Lake Hamana-ko. There we had to row our small boat all the day, even if the waves were much high. Once we had almost sunk with our small boat in to sea, I felt it was very awful. I don't want to remember it.

Anyway, I will put the ways in the order that I prefer.

On foot,

On bicycle

On horseback(I didn't experienced, but I want to do.)

by motor-bicycle

by car

by bus

on a largeplane

on a small plane

on a large ship

on a small sailing boat

These traveling theme arouses my interest for traveling.

Masao Kuroda

We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea

I like this kind of reading, adventure, survival and happy ending. Even so, it was a bit predictable ending. If you want to know the plot summary of this book, please click here.

Jim’s question: Please relate this story to the current 'no fly' situation in the UK.
The four Walker children, John, Susan, Titty and Roger at last reached Flushing in the Nether Lands from Harwich in the UK crossing the cold stormy North Sea by small yacht, Goblin. They have no petrol, no IT equipments like GPS, just compass and some food.
Nowadays we can cross the North Sea easily by plane which is the safest transportation in the world. But even the safest transportation by advancement in IT would be often unable to function in a vast natural. For example,
- Volcanic ash incidents involving airliners
- Air crash’s high impact on Polish politics

I think we should realize that we can’t go against the nature even so we have leading knowledge and technology.

By the way, my colleague is visiting Germany on business at this moment. I hope he’ll be able to return to Japan until Golden Week.

Koa