In crossing between the Virgin Islands
A word about navigation between the islands. ... We must be vigilant ... you meet a bunch of rental boats steer by amateurs who have no regard for rules of priority ... I had a very strong desire to use the horn. ... but hey, I breathe through your nose ...
cons Small islands like Jost Van Dyke and Norman Island, Beef Island, are all the more charming than the others. Our favorite? Jost Van Dyke does not recommend any guide yet. There is something of yet humble in Jost Van Dyke. Moreover, without despising the boaters, the locals are particularly independent. To a lady whom he asked to sell chips at a grocery store, Daniel was told No, it does not tempt me to open ... however, she rocked on her gallery and shop is right behind her, in his home. ... Not too much money ... I would say. But we loved this place.
Bay Norman Island
A Norman Island, with Jean-François and Dominique, we went to snorkel in the caves ... A seabed rather poor, Daniel met a turtle, and we saw a few fish, nothing extraordinary.
Here to Beef Island, what is unique is the local crafts, pottery, some sculptures, painters Sunday ... We also saw how people were fishing instead ... the net from the beach ... we are waiting for the winds down a bit, they blow past three days at 20 knots, gusting to 25 but what we see on the graphs of our prediction sites is that wave at sea is still pretty big ... we leave anyway just now for Virgin Gorda, the last of the Virgin. You think you have a weather window to cross to St. Martin on Wednesday night. A 18 hours at sea, the last big deals ...
A little hammock for relaxing with our friends JULIA IV
Among those charges are aggravated sexual assault against a spouse, sexual assault, assault of a child, assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon and threats.
REUTERS
| Sue Bailey and Alison Auld |
Documents of the military police have reported sexual assaults and disputes between spouses occurred on or near Canadian Forces bases, gestures as counselors attribute to multiple visits troops in Afghanistan.
These documents paint a picture of the tensions and conflicts that erupt regularly in the military across the country. They describe 49 incidents that took place from 1 July 2008 to 1 February 1009, after which charges were laid or complaints were deemed "founded".
Several other cases of aggression - physical or sexual - were treated with measures "alternative" or left to the "discretion" of the Ministry Federal National Defence.
documents, heavily censored, were released by National Defence eight months after The Canadian Press had made the request under the provisions of the Act on Access to Information. The names of suspects and victims were removed, and dates of incidents scratched.
just the tip of the iceberg
Among those charges are aggravated sexual assault against a spouse, sexual assault, assault of a child, assault causing bodily harm, assault Army and threats.
advisers argue that the reports made public by the police are only the tip of the iceberg because many victims of domestic violence have chosen to remain silent.
In January 2009, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has contacted the military police based in Shilo, Manitoba, to inform him that a soldier had been arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault committed against his wife, using a weapon, sexual assault and three counts of threats.
In July 2008, a member of 2nd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment was charged with Oromocto, New Brunswick, of assaulting his girlfriend at their home.
The same month, military police at CFB Borden, located north of Toronto, responded to a distress call from a woman whose husband was subsequently charged with assault.
Currently, hundreds of military families have requested and get help at the base in Petawawa, Ontario, and twenty others were placed on a waiting list. Before the deployment of Canadian forces in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, in 2006, only 12 of them were in such a situation.
Several of the 150 Canadian soldiers have died in Afghanistan were based in Petawawa.
The press has been talking about two days. But not that way. It is a typical case that deserves to be called the right way. We are in the presence of physical and psychological violence, the desire to dominate the most obvious, and cruelty. There is more to an abuse of weakness and plunder.
Certainly the couple is atypical: 40 years of age difference. But it is their choice. He never imagined that such a misfortune happen to him. Despite the suspicions of interest that might have been fed with respect to his wife, he is believed. Men are sometimes quite naive.
man confirms that he was beaten by his wife, malnourished and afflicted. "" She beat me to punish me. She took me for a servant, " he testified.
For a year, this man has lived a nightmare, locked in a tiny laundry room, kidnapped by some of his family who violate and undernourishment. Visually impaired for several years, he has now completely lost his sight because of its deplorable conditions.
Large sums of money belonging to it would otherwise have been diverted. Arrested Wednesday, his wife has been remanded in custody Friday at the prison of Versailles, near Paris. (ATS)
It is therefore up to the physical sequestration. There was with humiliation and psychological abuse will monitor and submit, therefore domination. There is cruelty to act with her lover in front of her husband. It yal'abus of weakness, the man can not physically defend themselves by age but also because of a disability: it is visually impaired. Finally it is said that the wife had misappropriated large sums of money (€ 500,000) to his advantage last year. The next step was the murder.
It is well to an extreme case of domestic violence committed by the wife. It is an aggravating factor for violence and simple kidnapping.
The press does not say. Justice does not mention it.
Part of the Bay of Charlotte Amalie in St. Thomas St. Thomas first, the island of pirates, who the evening looks like a big Christmas tree. Us before we anchor Charlotte Amalie, 500 feet of downtown and the dinghy dock. Never seen so many jewels, Rolex and company, they are all there, clearly dominating the entire commercial space. But there are more interesting. The island itself, he must climb to the summit, and there, the reward it's a perfect view of all virgins, Jost Van Dyke, St. Croix, St. John, Tortola and Virgin Gorda later ....
Stunning views of the Virgin Islands
Awesome! We also made a visit to the round of 99 steps. The tower itself has little interest, which has really turned it on the road to the tower, we can enter in four different homes, including a bill of Dutch home Haagensen, built in 1822. The beauty of this colonial house, its huge windows, giving all the bay, the porch, shutters, essential in this heat .... And gardens around. ... We felt the quintessence of life in the islands ... of course the price of building operations. ... That's the flip side.
We found our friends Julia IV also in Charlotte Amalie speak French ... Well, it's nice and plus they are pretty fun ... but no they are found Louise, the captain who travels alone on Blue Planet. ... We met Elise Stone and Imagine, which we have kindly said all their favorite coves, the ones who are in the south for 8 years .... They had talked about we just Honeymoon Bay, which is near Charlotte Amalie, we did, and really is very pretty .... A beautiful beach, a bar with lounge chairs, boat aground just on the same beach, giving an air of Gilligan's Island to the place ... too cute ... we have spent an afternoon and yesterday we moved to St. James to find Jean-Francois and Dominique for a supper. Today, with the largest wind we'll go to St. John ... and then leave blank for U.S. English. ... Another world ... it seems.
On the balcony of the house Haagensen
Syrah That alone in the Bay of Patillas
We spent the days at the following rate: navigation night, either at midnight or four in the morning, depending on the distance. This is because the winds are calmer at night these days and the day they go up to 20-25 knots, which would if they are not perfect ... face. We should be doing a lot of tacs, or go to the boat engine ... hits hard because the waves in these conditions .... It was therefore decided to sail at night. Or rather Daniel navigates night trying to sleep ... not always successfully, during this time. In the morning we arrive, either Salinas, Patil or Daniel Vieques and then sleeps until noon. Then we'll visit the place .... Everywhere surprises ...
Vieques, for example, owned Puerto Rico but is considered as a Virgin English was in our mind, sparsely populated, inhospitable because that occupied by the U.S. military as a naval base ... but we had it all wrong. We did that visited Puerto Real, but we found the place very nice . One main street overlooking the sea with lots of restaurants and bars for boaters and a few shops whose "memories" are too expensive for what they are. But you feel welcome .... It is much ...
A Patila by cons, we were all alone in the bay ... we went to eat at the restaurant of the place, just to highlight the Valentine's just where we could easily monitor what Syrah which look great ... it was
Salinas is the least interesting of the three, we took our bikes to ride to the next village, we refuel, and as we ' is a bit lost trying to find the exit in Salinas, so it was completely grid. ... not much to note except that the whole village seems to be improvised restaurant, but many seem to have abandoned the project running ...
This morning however, with a month late on our schedule, we took the same time as 3 cruise ships, in Charlotte Amalie, capital of St. Thomas. So here we officially in the Virgin Islands ... .. And now, without even having set foot on shore, it's beautiful .... To be continued ... of course.
Every morning this week began with a rainbow sky 
The "Liberty of the Sea" from the top of El Castillo San Cristobal Then we met by chance Michael and Zohra in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ... That is to say exactly where it should go, all four when they came to Provo in December, and finally, we could not move because of problems ... of the boat. Imagine our surprise, we cried, all is not possible, how is that possible, etc .... We had just arrived by car with Aubrey and Kathleen sat behind when Daniel and I together, we said 'My god this guy, he looks like Michael, and there we saw Zohra, I went out waterspout in the car, we fell into the arms ... .. Them, they were calling. They make a cruise with the "Liberty of the Sea" a city on the water .... Puerto Rico and they had a small stopover of several hours we spent together, of course! We were, definitely, due San Juan to visit together every four ....
That we really liked at all. The old town is beautiful, the fort, which they call el castillo, but certainly not a castle, is still very well preserved, it has for centuries in Spain, then to the U.S. to monitor sea .... Then we walked through the narrow streets and teeming with people of San Juan ... a lot of tourists, but also the real world ... the whole shady spot along the sea makes me want to linger ... a beautiful area, the rest of San Juan, we crossed by car, I can say is that San Juan seems to develop harmoniously, a city both American and Latino.
A word about Pontius we visited the day before yesterday .... This is the second largest city in Puerto Rico it overlooks the Caribbean Sea, in contrast to San Juan overlooking the Atlantic, it is 97 km from it. ... It is a city with a lot of government buildings, quiet and quite pretty in its center. ... We spent the afternoon, it was enough to go around ...
We thought to leave tonight, we traveled last night because the winds were calmer than the day .... but I think we'll have to wait a little longer, it is stirring ... even at anchor.
It was said that San Jose would all 
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