Cruiseday Tuesday – How cruise-ship meals are prepped.
“… it is just a bit busier than the average home kitchen :-)”
Travel Tuesday – The menu’s changing for Cruise-ship dining
“… even before Covid-19, buffets were under fire as potential petri-dishes of infection…”
Weekly Travelpic – Coffee Markets in Saigon
This is inside the Ben Thanh markets, in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon, as it was known prior to 1975) – apparently one of the oldest surviving ‘structures’ in Saigon. Markets in the area have existed for centuries .. although they were initially closer to the river (which is unsurprising). However, during the…
Travel Pics Theme: V for Vietnam
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. For an ostensibly communist country, Vietnam is a remarkably capitalist society. In fact, it is officially “a market economy with a socialist orientation” … but on-the-ground, that means little. This woman, selling seafood off a boat in Halong Bay it s a…
Travel Pics Theme: H for Hoi An
The theme for our travel pics this week is H, for Hoi An. One of the highlights of our three days there was a visit to the bustling food markets on a Sunday morning. The sheer variety of fresh food was astounding – and so was the range of participants. There were fruit and vegetable peddlers, interspersed…
Tuesday Cruiseday: Mystery Island, a review
Hundreds of thousands of visitors head to Vanuatu’s Mystery Island each year – almost all of them offloaded from passing cruise ships for a day of snorkelling, and swimming, and seashell collection, and sun. And for an uninhabited island, this tropical paradise does a remarkable job of catering to them all. Mystery Island’s ‘proper’ name is Inyeug Island…
Tuesday Cruiseday – The best laid plans …
I mentioned last week that Shirley and I are currently on the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, around the South Pacific. And we have been having a great time – but that doesn’t mean that everything is going exactly to plan … Even as we sailed from Brisbane, we knew there was a fair chance that…
Tuesday Cruiseday – Same Same but different :-)
It’s curious how every cruise-line … in fact, every ship … differs from each other – and yet there is a certain sameness about them all, as well. Shirley and I are currently on the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, sailing toward New Caledonia. This is our sixth cruise, on our fifth ship –…
Thursday thoughts – Rules v Customer Service
I was at a small restaurant last night, which we’ve been to regularly – and as it turns out, we were the only customers seated there. There were probably two reasons for that: One was because the heavens opened just moments after we arrived, so that would have deterred people thinking about whether to go…
Travel Pics Theme: E for Eating. Thanksgiving Chicken, California
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. One of the best parts about taking photos while travelling is that looking at them later helps bring back the memories. This particular dish is one of my favourites – Honey Mustard Chicken Salad, with pecans, leafy greens, onion, and capsicum (peppers…
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