Here’s a question: What, in Marketing terms, is a promise worth? The reason I ask is because Princess has just released what it’s calling its “Come Back New” promise. Many fellow cruise-bloggers have waxed lyrical about that promise – of new excursions, and new Curtis Stone restaurants, and new GastroPubs, and TV show tie-ins, and better…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. It’s my birthday today but this is NOT my cake – nor my candle. It’s actually a fireworks candle on a cake that was prepared for a fellow package tour participant in China a couple of years back. We were in a theatre…
I’ve been a customer of Audible, on and off, since I don’t know when – and I mean that literally. My current subscription dates back to 2013, but I can’t remember when I first opened an account. All I know is that it was long before Amazon bought the company in 2008. In fact, I can…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. The genesis of this image may not seem unusual to our American readers but this is a real rarity in Australia – it is from one of the few remaining grocery-store diners left in the country. It used to be that at the capital-city…
Hey, it’s back! 🙂 Here’s the third (somewhat delayed) episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Enjoy!
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. We’ve just returned from a two week trip to Vietnam – and as part of the holiday, we did a cookery class near Hoi An, making Cha Gio (fried spring rolls) and Banh Xeo (fried Vietnamese pancakes with shrimp, pork, bean sprouts and egg),…
When I was a kid, they still used to show the ‘serials’ before the main feature at the movies – and each episode of The Rocketeer, or Copperhead, or even Hopalong Cassidy lasted around 15 minutes. Which was pretty much the attention span of your average 10-year old. But even for grownups, the average length…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. Most of the food images we have taken, while traveling, have been of things that we really like. But every now and then, something is so bad it has to be documented. This is one such serving. In 2008, we were in Hawaii – which,…
You may remember that I wrote, some months ago, about taking guided tours as opposed to self-guided travel trips. And I said that I would update the blog, after I undertook another guided tour, to Vietnam. Well, I’m sitting in the lobby of the Ruby River hotel in Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City, waiting…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. We noticed that perhaps a quarter of the images in our personal Facebook feeds were .. well, feeds! And so we start this week’s image theme by featuring one from a few years ago. This was a Thai ‘banquet on a single plate’…
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