This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. For Thursday, it’s a pic I snapped of the Azamara Quest, docked in Cairns. Azamara is a Royal Caribbean cruise line – but that’s a bit like saying a Lexus is a Toyota. Azamara is a premium cruise service – as witnessed by the size of…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. For Wednesday, we’re off to Road Town, on Tortola. It’s the capital of the British Virgin Islands, and home to about 12,000 people. It’s a centre of yacht chartering, as well as a destination for cruise ships like the MSC Musica, shown in today’s Travel Pic.…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. For Tuesday, it’s an interior shot from on board the Royal Caribbean’s Legend Of The Seas. Before we took our first cruise, we thought entertainment on board would be all shuffleboard, and bingo, and poker machines, and sitting on deck chairs reading Agatha Christie novels.…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. The images will all be shots we have taken in, on or of cruise ships in our travels. Most we’ve actually traveled on – but a couple were passing us by. The first for the week is the first cruise ship we ever sailed on…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. All the images were taken in a quick visit in April 2015 – Barbados was a port on our Caribbean-to-Europe cruise. It was amusing, as we sailed toward Barbados … a number of times on the night before, and on the morning of, our arrival we…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. For Wednesday, an image from Orchid World, one of the most colourful locations in an already colourful island! Orchid World is a garden featuring around 5000 garden orchids – although obviously they aren’t all in bloom at the same time 🙂 I should stress that they are…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. All the images were taken in a quick visit in April 2015 – Barbados was a port on our Caribbean-to-Europe cruise and it was only a taste. We begin at the port of Bridgetown, or, officially, Deep Water Harbour. The port was constructed in the late…
Here’s the Eleventh episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel and Cruising This week in cruise news – hello, and goodbye, to ships servicing Australia; and in Travel – what happens when you negotiate a price – and the local wants more later? Enjoy!
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! Shot from on board the Legend of the Seas in the South Pacific, this container ship at sunset shows that even something as stocky and square as a container ship can be beautiful, in the right circumstances. We…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is U, for Under. For Wednesday, we head Under Water – to Jinek Bay, at Lifou – one of the most popular snorkelling spots for those cruising the South Pacific. I’d been to Lifou a few years back, and snorkelled at Jinek Bay – and was a…
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