How the EU Works
With apologies to the original author, but I don't know the provenance of this piece. All I know is that it conforms to my understanding (and experience) of how the...
Creating A Travel Guide With WikiPedia
An original version of this post was published in January 2013, but I thought it was worth updating and re-posting, having just created a travel guide for our forthcoming cruise from...
Christmas & New Year Cruise 2015/6
Aboard the Cruise & Maritime ship "Magellan". This was a first experience of being away for Christmas and the New Year. It was an amazing time, taking in the Christmas...
Queen Mary 2 – a taste of luxury
Cruise on the QM2, New York To London, 29th October 2015 to 6th November 2015 Lynda (wife) and I made a conscious decision early in our cruising career to opt...
Bridgetown, Barbados – and farewell to the West Indies!
We arrived in Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday 2nd February. This is our last port of call in the West Indies before starting our homeward leg across the vast Atlantic. After Barbados we can look forward to (!) five days at sea before arriving at …
Granada, “Spice of the Caribbean”, and spicy gossip!
Continuing my travelogue of our epic cruise from Tilbury, to the Amazon, the West Indies and the Azores (and ultimately back to Tilbury). I should be writing about our experience in Granada, where we arrived on the morning of Wednesday 30th Januar…
Iles du Salut, French Guiana (Devil’s Island..and Papillon has gone!)
We made a brief (half-day) stop at the Iles du Salut on Monday 28th January.The Îles du Salut (in English: Islands of Health, so called because the missionaries went there to escape plague on the mainland) are a group of small islands of volcanic …
Letter from the Amazon: Santana and Macapá
From Evernote: Letter from the Amazon: Santana and Macapá This was our last stop on the “Amazon leg” of our cruise. After this we travel to the West Indies, and then home. Macapá is the capital of Amapá region which stretches from the Amazon delta…
Letter from the Amazon: Alter do Chao, Brazil
From Evernote: Letter from the Amazon: Alter do Chao, Brazil We arrived at Alto do Chao on Thursday 24th January. The rustic beach community of Alto do Chao lies on the bank of the Tapojas river, upstream from Santaram. It’s a small village with a…
Letter From The Amazon: Parintins and the Boi-Bumba Festival
From Evernote: Letter From The Amazon: Parintins and the Boi-Bumba Festival We arrived at Parintins on Wednesday 23rd January. Parintins is situated on the southern bank of the Amazon River in the largest river archipelago of the mid-Amazon, on th…