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I thought it may take time to recover from the trip but soon after we arrived in Portchester I got the train to London and met a friend in a sunny park, we talked as the sun came down over Holborn. Two days later, I was in Burnley planning to visit friends in Hebden Bridge and decided against the train, instead walking the thirteen miles, it was sunny, I passed several rabbits and pheasants that had been hit by cars and one frog laid flat also the victim of a passing vehicle. I had over 4,500 nautical miles in my logbook, a beard of two months and a t-shirt which had been bleached by the sun. There were times I had been alone at night because the other person on watch was down below writing the log, I thought about my parents, how they had supported me and that I needed to spend more time with them. This had been the enduring thought.

Logbook:

Until the next time thank you for reading and please share this post with friends,

Adnan
Burnley Central Library, Burnley, 2025

Adnan Sarwar is a philosophy student at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He won The Bodley Head/Financial Times essay prize, edited for The Economist and is an Iraq war veteran of the British Army.