13h. The captain called us to come up. The cargo flows between northern Scotland and the Orkney Islands. On the map, it's called the Pentland Firth and the current is strong in our favor, east-west. The cliffs give way to a strip of land all green. The clouds have won the battle. A tower emerges in the distance.
On map, the shortest route between Antwerp and Montreal is a straight line. In reality, it is a curve that goes back to Iceland and Greenland and down to Newfoundland. We tend to forget: the earth is round.
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