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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!
The theme for our travel pics this week is A – for Antigua. We are going to do a letter a week until June – next week is B for Bridges, then C for Churches .. week eight will be H for Hanoi, etc etc. So, as I say, we start with A for Antigua. We visited this West…
First up, welcome to the new Cairnscommunications blog. It’s got a new look, as you can tell – but it’s also got a new commitment from me. When I gave up full-time work about six months ago, it was to give me time to write about the things I love, and to travel, and to…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport. Across Asia, Africa, and Central America, a three-wheeled ‘auto-rickshaw’ has been a favoured form of transport for nearly a century. Known by a variety of names, they are almost universally called Tuk Tuks in Thailand, because of the noise their two-stroke engines would make (Tuk-Tuk-Tuk-Tuk..)…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport San Francisco CBD has three unusual forms of Public Transport – the cable-cars (which we’ll look at later), electric buses (using overhead power cables, like the old tram system) and streetcars like this one which was outside the ferry building. Some of these streetcars aren’t the…
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