We are here!
We are here! And we are going to stay here for the next two days as life has go a bit complicated. I regret to inform you the nail bar at the end of the bridge doesn’t exist so it is time to look out at the world and think of history. The advert for, possibly cars, possibly coffee, I can’t remember, had Sting singing ‘I’m an Englishman Abroad’. It started, properly, with a fade in of some excellent cricketing triumph. This was later replaced by some footballing moment because of market research I’ll be bound. The British are coming and they came for Tenerife. Tenerife saw the arrival of the First Fleet to Botany Bay in June 1787 - I expect you weren’t expecting that. The Fleet consisted of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict ships carrying between 1,000 and 1,500 convicts, marines, seamen, civil officers and free people (accounts differ on the numbers), and a vast quantity of stores. On 3rd June 1787, the fleet ancho...