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…”

Thursday Travel – A snapshot of the Australian cruise market

There’s little doubt that travelling for pleasure on cruise ships is one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourist market both in Australia and overseas. According to the Cruise Lines International Association, more than 1 in 20 Aussies have taken a cruise – and 1.3 million cruises were taken by Australians in 2017, according…

Weekly Travel Pic: Ovation of the Seas in Sydney Harbour

Our feature Travel pic for this week is the Royal Caribbean Ovation Of The Seas, at berth alongside the Overseas Passenger Terminal in Sydney, Australia. This Quantum class ship was the third of its class, and went into service in April 2016. It can carry up to 4,900 passengers and 1500 crew, and has been…

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. On the Waterfront…

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. And for Thursday, the Floriana waterfront. The waterfront here was initially developed with stores or wharves on the left (the Pinto stores seen here), and the Forni stores to the right (out of shot here, but you can see them in a #travelpic from earlier this week) In between…

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. Elevating the view.

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. I remember once being told that “You don’t want to see how sausages are made, or you will never eat another snag!” Well, today you get to see how the sausages of our #Travelpics photos are made. The pictures we choose are all from those shot by either…

Travel Pics Theme: V for Valletta. Saluting its bravery

This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. Valletta is the capital of Malta, a small republic about 80km south of Italy which has been at the crossroads of empires for millennia. Malta has been strategically important for traders and military forces from the Phoenicians and Carthaginians to the Greeks, the Romans, to Byzantine and…

Travel Pics Theme: U for Undulations. Pining for the Fiords …

Today’s ‘Undulations’ are in New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park. The region, on the southwest of the Southern Island of New Zealand, features three main sounds: Doubtful, Dusky and Milford – each of which has deeply gouged fiord valleys – remnants of the glaciers which have dominated the area for millennia. There are few roads .. in…

Travel Pics Theme: P for Pacific. A potted history.

It was Ferdinand Magellan who coined the name Pacific (peaceful) for the largest ocean in the world – despite the fact that it can be anything but, at times. It seems he had just sailed around Cape Horn, at the southern end of South America – and after the storms of the Southern Atlantic ocean,…

Travel Pics Theme: P for Pacific. Noumea’s Church of Miracles

I don’t know what it is about churches that attracts me when we travel – after all, I’ve been an agnostic since my teenage years. But there is no doubt that churches, temples, shrines and mosques draw me like a moth to a flame. And that was true in Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia,…