Cruising on the Oceania cruise ship Sirena, 11th September to 22nd September 2017. We took a flight from London Heathrow to Venice where we boarded our Oceania cruise ship, the...
As a manager, I've had to do my fair share of performance appraisals, which (as I'm sure the employees also found) was a pretty tedious and meaningless experience. Fortunately I...
Apparently there is a world-wide epidemic of 'Zombie Smartphone Users', which I can quite believe based on my infrequent sojourns into London. A smartphone zombie is a pedestrian who walks...
I've been a bit tardy in posting any details about our last cruise, which was over 8 months ago. One of those tasks I've been meaning to do but never...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our recent visit to the Caribbean took in the tiny island of St Barthélemy – more commonly known at St Barts. This is the smallest of the fours islands that...
Stuck for what to write on your employee's personal appraisal form? Short of ideas on what to write on that reference you were asked for? Here's a few ideas (with...