The Flying Dutchman

This time, I am not going about the well-know Richard Wagner's Opera, but about the facts that Wagner himself lived in a summer of the middle XIX century. These were the ones that lead to compose the Opera. By that time, it seems that he was enduring serious troubles with payements so that he dedided to ship from a harbour in the Baltic Sea towards London. Even though it was summer, weather was so bad that he felt very sick in several times. Having seen how difficult the journey was, the ship's Captain dedided at first look to look for shelter into Norwegian Fiords. Several days later weather was better enough to go on but they did not know that the worst was going to come. When they were in the very begining of The Channel an horrible blizard made Richard think his last day was come. So bad was weather that, when they finally arrived to London alive, his sensitivity was to compose a [wonderful] Opera, just because they thought bad travel were due to The Fliying Dutchman's ship: a black one headed by a guy who was doomed to sail forever.