The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport. I might have mentioned in the past that I’m something of a nerdygeek when it comes to high-speed trains 🙂 So far, we’ve traveled on the high-speed * Trenitalia Freccia train from Rome to Paris (300km/hr – but it was an overnight train – so there…
The theme for our travel pics this week is public transport. We’ll start with the Bula Bus in Fiji – this is actually a shuttle bus that services the resorts on Denarau Island in Nadi, Fiji. Initially it was a free service, and supplemented the paid service run by WestBus – but on our last visit, it…
I’m relaunching this blog page tomorrow – and part of the redesign will be Tuesday Cruiseday posts .. but I thought I’d post this here, first. With all the bad PR that P&O is getting over the Aria and the Eden (and questions about whether they were rushed through their refurbishments), you may have missed…
Ida Pfeiffer was an extraordinary woman – in a time when women were supposed to be devoted to Kinder, Kuche, Kirche – or children, kitchen, church. Instead, Frau Pfeiffer, having outlived her husband, and having sent her strapping young lads out into the world on their own, decided to travel – and then write about it, for…
One of the things I love about travel is seeing things that are similar to our western experience – but just a little different. A perfect example of that might be temples. Now, I have been to lots of churches. I’ve read quite about about the construction of cathedrals, and (although now an agnostic) I…
P&O Cruises has announced it will add some muscle to its sports line up next year, taking guests to the biggest event on the Rugby League calendar – State of Origin – for the first time. I remember the first time I went on the Carnival Spirit, the memorabilia in the ‘Sports Bar’ was dominated…
There’s a cruise underway to the ‘Mexican Riviera’, as its known .. which is hardly unusual for this time of year. But it WAS unusual 50 years ago this week – and that’s why the current cruise is also noteworthy. It was 50 years ago last week that Stanley McDonald chartered the Princess Patricia from Canadian Pacific Limited…
Have you ever had a vague holiday thought, only to see it become an all-singing all-dancing vacation extravaganza seemingly on its own? Some people just ‘wing it’ when they go on holidays – others like to plan everything down to the finest detail. As for Shirley & I? We’re somewhere in the middle, I guess.…
We’ve spoken before about eating on a cruise ship – but you may not have considered WHY some cruise-lines push all-inclusive, while others offer a-la-carte extras. The organization of amenities is an important area where the cruising industry has made changes in order to keep their ships running profitably. One of these areas is the way…
When I started this blog, I said “Graham and Shirley Cairns have a passion for travel – but unlike many writers, they are doing it on their own dollar. As a mid-fifties couple, with adult children, they are SKINs – ‘Spending the Kids Inheritance Now’. But since they’d like to leave those kids something, they are…
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