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Here’s the fourth 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!

Tuesday Cruiseday – What’s a (marketing) promise worth?

Here’s a question: What, in Marketing terms, is a promise worth? The reason I ask is because Princess has just released what it’s calling its “Come Back New” promise. Many fellow cruise-bloggers have waxed lyrical about that promise – of new excursions, and new Curtis Stone restaurants, and new GastroPubs, and TV show tie-ins, and better…

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Hey, it’s back! 🙂 Here’s the third (somewhat delayed) 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!

Tuesday Cruiseday – snippets from the Cruise Industry

The battle by P&O Australia to overcome the bad publicity that’s marred the introduction of the Pacific Aria and the Pacific Eden continues – but as it does, there are continuing complaints by some unhappy passengers. The level of complaints appears to be dying off – although there are still a number of reports on…

Tuesday Cruiseday – Halong Bay

We’ve just spent a couple of days cruising in Vietnam’s Halong Bay, on board a boat with about a dozen cabins and a mixed group of passengers from the four corners of the earth. When I think of cruising, I normally think of a large(ish) ship, crossing oceans and visiting far flung places. But the…

Rear View Microphone: Well now this is embarrassing…

Today should see the publication of the third episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Unfortunately, I’m on holidays in Singapore and Vietnam over the next three weeks – and my recording equipment didn’t even survive the…

Cruiseday Tuesday – Bootcamps or Bonus Drinks?

I’m always intrigued by the different things people want from a cruise. For some, it’s to relax around the pool, reading books and drinking cocktails – sometimes not even getting off at ports, because its all about the boat. For others, its the excursions, and the destinations, and the adventure. For some it is an…

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Here’s the second 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!

Travel Pics Theme: A for Antigua. Farewell Wadadli!

The theme for our ‪‎travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – and this was taken as we sailed away from the magnificent West Indies island. Antigua is also called Wadadli by locals – and that’s also the name of their delicious beer 🙂 Wadadli means “our own” in the local dialect, whereas Antigua…

Travel Pics Theme: A for Antigua. Catamarans ahoy.

The theme for our ‪‎travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – Today, it’s sailboats skimming across the bay. One of the most popular cruise-ship excursions on the Caribbean Island of Antigua is taking a catamaran off to a reef, and then snorkelling in the crystal clear waters. And from this picture, you…