we could be sailing

Elke and I have been close friends for ten years now, mostly by frequent emails but also in person a couple times.  She knows me better than almost anyone else does.  She and her husband Peter, who was once abducted by aliens (but that's another story), live on the north coast of Germany, and Jerry and I have visted them twice.  Peter's passion in life is sailing (he is a retired fisherman), and he has taken us out sailing on their boat, the first time of which didn't set well with me because we had just had eels and beer before heading out onto the rough North Sea.

Elke and Peter have been on a chilly extended voyage the past several weeks, north of Germany and Denmark (and not making it as far as Finland -- just like me!), and she has been sending me a few photos as she travels.  This one amused me, as it catches Elke enjoying some beer and feasting on a bird.  She has told me multiple times that she only likes to eat meat that she sees grow up, but I guess when you're out of the seas, you can handle eel for only so long and you make do.  Safe travels, Elke...