Postcard From The Ledge

Today was a another very slow blip day so I decided to create this scene imagining an epic adventurer about to send a postcard he has written to his loved ones many continents away eloquently describing his waterborne journey from a port of call as he traverses the globe aboard a sailing ship.
It's actually just a random postcard (if you're occasionally stuck for a blip subject I recommend just chucking in a postcard) I found lying around the house which I have propped up against some vaguely looking exotic plants halfway up our stairs (strictly speaking it's not even a ledge just the widest part of a the stairs nearest to the wall) and from somewhere the title of Carrie Fisher's novel popped into my head and I've paraphrased it for blip purposes - but I like the original explanation better! :-)
I've no idea where the postcard came from as nobody in our household has been to Norway (see below) or aboard a sailing ship and the card itself is blank on the reverse so no-one of our acquaintance has sent greetings to us from a Scandinavian country or has been charmed enough to buy a postcard bearing the depiction of such a vessel. Very curious!

So why not tell you some of he story of the ship you can see in the postcard. It's called the Statsraad Lehmkuhl and is a three-masted barque rigged sail training vessel whose home port is Bergen in Norway but was originally built in 1914 in a German shipyard in Geestemunde for the country's merchant navy under its original name of Grossherzog Friedrich August (they like a snappy name these shipbuilders!) but was taken as a prize by the UK after the First World War and subsequently bought by a former Norwegian cabinet minister, after whom it is now named.
Since August 2021 the foundation who own and operate the ship have been involved in the "One Ocean Expedition", circumnavigating the world collecting meteorological and hydrographical data along with samples of fish, microplastics and eDNA with the Statsraad Lehmkuhl now being equipped as a research vessel and used on some of the legs of this important environmental undertaking.