{"id":122,"date":"2015-07-01T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:13:49","slug":"outside-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/outside-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside interests"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"122\" class=\"elementor elementor-122\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-159bc1d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"159bc1d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-755bbca2\" data-id=\"755bbca2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28fe1b67 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"28fe1b67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Tall ship crewing<\/h3><p>I have guest-crewed several times on the <em>Lord Nelson<\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jst.org.uk\/voyages\/tenacious\/\">Tenacious<\/a>,<\/em> two tall ships that were run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/jst.org.uk\/\">Jubilee Sailing Trust<\/a> charity before its demise. More recently, I guest-crewed on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchtallship.com\/oosterschelde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oosterschelde<\/a><\/em>, a Dutch three-masted schooner.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AP2-026.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AP2-026-945x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Lord Nelson on STW9 voyage, North Atlantic\" width=\"660\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AP2-026-945x1024.jpg 945w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AP2-026-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord Nelson on our epic Recife-Halifax voyage, North Atlantic in 2014. Here heading towards Canada.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The ethos of the Jubilee Sailing Trust was to enable all to crew together, whatever their physical abilities.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-123 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-04-07-16.36.06-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"2015-04-07 16.36.06\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-04-07-16.36.06-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-04-07-16.36.06-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie doing a &#8216;sea stow&#8217; (and still waving!) in the middle of the Atlantic<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>My most memorable and epic 6-week voyage: sailing from Recife in Brazil to Halifax in Canada on <em>Lord Nelson. <\/em>I have also done voyages in the Caribbean, the Azores and sailed from Fiji to Sydney on <em>Tenacious.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-04-07-16.36.06.jpg\"><br \/><\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chart_jpeg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-125 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chart_jpeg-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"chart_jpeg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chart_jpeg-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chart_jpeg-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chart_jpeg.jpg 1316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voyage on Lord Nelson from Brazil to Canada (2014)<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20160726_154539938-e1473368263183.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-329 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20160726_154539938-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the South Pacific, somewhere between New Caledonia and Sydney<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/map_tns463.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-540 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/map_tns463-1024x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/map_tns463-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/map_tns463-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/map_tns463-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/map_tns463.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voyage from Fiji to Australia on Tenacious (July 2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>In January 2022, I sailed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchtallship.com\/oosterschelde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Oosterschelde<\/em><\/a>\u00a0around the Cape Verde Islands.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220128_161641507_HDR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-909 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220128_161641507_HDR-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220128_161641507_HDR-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220128_161641507_HDR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220128_161641507_HDR-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220128_161641507_HDR-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220128_161641507_HDR-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p><h3>Travelling<\/h3><p>I am passionate about travelling independently around the world and since my retirement, I have done four 4+ week long trips with my partner to: to Laos, Cambodia and Thailand in 2023, to Sri Lanka in 2024, to Ecuador and the Galapagos in 2025 and to Malaysia and Borneo in 2026. We have also done shorter trips to Iceland, Morocco, Croatia amonsgt\u00a0 others.<\/p><p>I have also travelled by myself with small groups to Kyrgysztan and Kazakhstan in 2024 and did an epic 3200 km road trip in Mongolia in 2025. I totally fell in love with Mongolia and hope to return.\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20250623_130251370.MP3-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1044 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20250623_130251370.MP3-1-1024x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20250623_130251370.MP3-1-1024x429.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20250623_130251370.MP3-1-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20250623_130251370.MP3-1-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20250623_130251370.MP3-1-1536x644.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20250623_130251370.MP3-1-2048x858.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p><h3>Games Maker Choir<\/h3><p>I sang for many years with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesmakerchoir.org.uk\/\">Games Maker Choir<\/a>, a choir formed of volunteers from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. We were lucky enough to perform at Wembley Stadium, Twickenham Stadium and at the Olympic Park amongst other venues. In 2015, we sang anthems at two of the Rugby Union World Cup matches. In 2017, we performed at the opening ceremony of the IAAF World Athletics championship and in 2018 at the Women&#8217;s World Hockey championships.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/choir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/choir-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"choir\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/choir.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/choir-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Games Maker Choir before our performance at Twickenham stadium (2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><a href=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FullSizeRender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-242 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/darkslategrey-mongoose-524898.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FullSizeRender-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FullSizeRender.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FullSizeRender-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Singing anthems at Rugby World Cup quarter finals at Twickenham (17\/10\/2015)<\/span><\/p><p><strong>Games Maker Choir showreel<\/strong><\/p><p><iframe title=\"Show Reel: The Games Maker Choir\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L03DwTYccyc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tall ship crewing I have guest-crewed several times on the Lord Nelson and Tenacious, two tall ships that were run by the Jubilee Sailing Trust charity before its demise. More recently, I guest-crewed on Oosterschelde, a Dutch three-masted schooner. The ethos of the Jubilee Sailing Trust was to enable all to crew together, whatever their &#8230; <a title=\"Outside interests\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/outside-interests\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Outside interests\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}