Rear View Microphone podcast 002

Here’s the second 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!

Travel Pics Theme: A for Antigua. Farewell Wadadli!

The theme for our ‪‎travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – and this was taken as we sailed away from the magnificent West Indies island. Antigua is also called Wadadli by locals – and that’s also the name of their delicious beer 🙂 Wadadli means “our own” in the local dialect, whereas Antigua…

Travel Pics Theme: A for Antigua. Catamarans ahoy.

The theme for our ‪‎travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – Today, it’s sailboats skimming across the bay. One of the most popular cruise-ship excursions on the Caribbean Island of Antigua is taking a catamaran off to a reef, and then snorkelling in the crystal clear waters. And from this picture, you…

Wed Workshop: Writing media releases for community groups

It was about 40 years ago, as a 15 year old teenager, that I first got involved in politics. I was in the youth group of a now-defunct political party, at around the same time as the then-brand-new southeast freeway was being opened. As part of a protest, a colleague and I snuck onto the…

Travel Pics Theme: A for Antigua. Starfish Kayaking

The theme for our ‪‎travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – and this was taken as we steered our sea-kayaks around mangroves, and over the shallow coral reefs nearby. We’d already been for a hike up the hill at Bird Island, and a snorkel amongst the coral just off shore – but…

Cruiseday Tuesday – Melbourne to get its own ship?

Melbourne is reportedly to get its own home-based cruise ship before long, according to industry insiders – but it WON’T be the latest P&O acquisition, announced last week. For many years, there have been calls to home-base a ship in the Victorian capital – but P&O, the largest operator in Australia, has instead restricted its…

Travel Pics Theme: A for Antigua. Nature always wins!

The theme for our ‪‎travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – and today it’s an abandoned boat in the harbour. Like many harbours we visited, St Johns (the capital of Antigua) contains a number of vessels … some floating, and some not! This is one of the ‘not’ – and it fascinated me. I…

Travel Pics Theme: A for Antigua. Bird Island.

The theme for our ‪‎travel pics this week is A – for Antigua, one of the Leeward Islands that make up the West Indies. This is the view from Bird Island – an amazing spot that separates the Caribbean and Atlantic oceans. We snorkelled on a reef down below, and swam in the crystal clear…

Travel Pics Theme: A for Antigua. Waterfront welcome

The theme for our ‪‎travel pics this week is A – for Antigua. The waterfront at Antigua was as pretty as a postcard – and completely dominated by the 13-story floating block of flats that we were on (the MSC Musica) We went for a wander around to buy trinkets, and drink beer – but like most…

Rear View Microphone podcast 001

Here’s the first 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!