The theme for our travel pics this week is L for London – and the images all come from our visit to see our son in 2010. First up is the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens. It was built on the instructions of Queen Victoria to honour her consort, Prince Albert, who died of typhoid…
Here’s the Tenth episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … This week – lots of cruise news – including a look at why gastro outbreaks occur – and why they are so newsworthy; in table-top games news,…
Here’s the ninth episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … This week – in cruise news Bali terror threats stop ships from sailing to the Indonesian holiday hotspot; in arts news, we look at recycling ideas; in…
We are currently planning significant trip to United States later this year – and it’s interesting to note the differences as well as the similarities. On this trip, we are going to travel nearly 4500km by land – that’s the equivalent of a loop from my home city of Brisbane, via Sydney, down to Melbourne,…
“@#$%^^& cruise ships – arrive, disgorge thousands, spend next to nothing in local economy and %^&* off again.” Love cruising? It seems that not everyone loves you! I was reading an article last month (from the Guardian, on plans by Italy’s Cinque Terre ports to limit the number of tourists) .. and it was amazing how quickly the…
Here’s the eighth episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … This week – lots of cruise news – including saying farewell to some Aussie and Kiwi favourites; in table-top games news, we look at lying with a…
Here’s the seventh episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … This week – lots of cruise news – including passengers having rocks thrown at them in Port Vila, but also lots of ‘good news’ stories about cruising; in…
Vietnam is an interesting place, to a visitor from a ‘liberal democracy’ like Australia. It is, strictly speaking, a communist country and yet many of the social welfare things that we have come to expect – like free schooling – don’t appear to be a part of the Vietnamese psyche. As Al Jazeera pointed out in…
Hundreds of thousands of visitors head to Vanuatu’s Mystery Island each year – almost all of them offloaded from passing cruise ships for a day of snorkelling, and swimming, and seashell collection, and sun. And for an uninhabited island, this tropical paradise does a remarkable job of catering to them all. Mystery Island’s ‘proper’ name is Inyeug Island…
Here’s the sixth episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … This week – A disturbing story about being at the mercy of a taxi driver in a strange land; Mystery Island – what’s the mystery?; I do my best…
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