One of the more popular ‘cruise ship’ destinations in Vanuatu is “Mystery Island”, at the south of the archipelago that makes up that country. It’s actual name is Inyeug island – and it’s an uninhabited island about a km off the larger Anatyeum. But why Mystery island? Well, there are two theories – and both…
I mentioned last week that Shirley and I are currently on the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, around the South Pacific. And we have been having a great time – but that doesn’t mean that everything is going exactly to plan … Even as we sailed from Brisbane, we knew there was a fair chance that…
Here’s the fifth 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 – we talk to a cruise-ship cruise director in the middle of a voyage, we look at one of highlights of any Vietnam tour…
I took a cyclo ride in Ho Chi Minh city a couple of weeks back. He said he wanted VND500,000 (about $US22) for a half hour ride. I told him that was ridiculous, and offered him VND200,000 (about $US8) – a fair rate, I thought. We haggled, and ended up at VND350 – that’s $US15,…
It’s curious how every cruise-line … in fact, every ship … differs from each other – and yet there is a certain sameness about them all, as well. Shirley and I are currently on the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, sailing toward New Caledonia. This is our sixth cruise, on our fifth ship –…
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!
If you go to Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon) in Vietnam, whether you book any day-tours around the city or just follow the guide-books, there are a number of places that are almost guaranteed to be on the itinerary. There’s the Notre Dame church, the Central Post Office (NOT designed by Gustave Eiffel,…
I was at a small restaurant last night, which we’ve been to regularly – and as it turns out, we were the only customers seated there. There were probably two reasons for that: One was because the heavens opened just moments after we arrived, so that would have deterred people thinking about whether to go…
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…
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!
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