Day 10 of our cruise and we've arrived at the historic heritage site of Port Arthur. Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula,...
Day 9 of our cruise, so it must be Hobart, internationally famous among the yachting community as the finish of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race which starts in Sydney...
Days 5 and 6 of our cruise. We took a short (30 minute) trip from Perth to Fremantle on the 28th January where we got the first glimpse of our...
We finally arrived in Perth, Western Australia at 5.15pm on Saturday 26th January – “Australia Day” – after a 17-hour flight. I was thankful for the Melatonin I took before...
With Christmas now a distant memory (well, 5 days can be a long time) and at least another 2 weeks before I sight my December credit card bill, I can...
Sixty years ago, the BBC filmed a train journey from London to Brighton, squeezed into just four minutes. Thirty years ago, they did it again. Now they've brought it up...
Now and again I come across something so "off the wall" and esoteric that I'm never quite sure what to do with it. As a life-long fan of Monty Python,...
The following truisms arose from some of those who are perhaps not in the first flush of youth (I qualify!): I started out with nothing, and still have most of...
For those old enough to remember what eating was like in the UK in the 1950's (and I do!).... Pasta had not been invented. Curry was an unknown entity. Olive...
It was a relatively short ‘hop’ from Faial to Sao Miguel, the largest of the islands in the Azores Archipelago, which was accomplished overnight, so we arrived early in the morning of Saturday 9th February. This is prime dolphin and whale-watching…
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