Melbourne is reportedly to get its own home-based cruise ship before long, according to industry insiders – but it WON’T be the latest P&O acquisition, announced last week. For many years, there have been calls to home-base a ship in the Victorian capital – but P&O, the largest operator in Australia, has instead restricted its…
The theme for our travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – and today it’s an abandoned boat in the harbour. Like many harbours we visited, St Johns (the capital of Antigua) contains a number of vessels … some floating, and some not! This is one of the ‘not’ – and it fascinated me. I…
The theme for our travel pics this week is A – for Antigua. We are going to do a letter a week until June – next week is B for Bridges, then C for Churches .. week eight will be H for Hanoi, etc etc. So, as I say, we start with A for Antigua. We visited this West…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport. Across Asia, Africa, and Central America, a three-wheeled ‘auto-rickshaw’ has been a favoured form of transport for nearly a century. Known by a variety of names, they are almost universally called Tuk Tuks in Thailand, because of the noise their two-stroke engines would make (Tuk-Tuk-Tuk-Tuk..)…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport San Francisco CBD has three unusual forms of Public Transport – the cable-cars (which we’ll look at later), electric buses (using overhead power cables, like the old tram system) and streetcars like this one which was outside the ferry building. Some of these streetcars aren’t the…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport. I might have mentioned in the past that I’m something of a nerdygeek when it comes to high-speed trains 🙂 So far, we’ve traveled on the high-speed * Trenitalia Freccia train from Rome to Paris (300km/hr – but it was an overnight train – so there…
The theme for our travel pics this week is public transport. We’ll start with the Bula Bus in Fiji – this is actually a shuttle bus that services the resorts on Denarau Island in Nadi, Fiji. Initially it was a free service, and supplemented the paid service run by WestBus – but on our last visit, it…
One of the things I love about travel is seeing things that are similar to our western experience – but just a little different. A perfect example of that might be temples. Now, I have been to lots of churches. I’ve read quite about about the construction of cathedrals, and (although now an agnostic) I…
P&O Cruises has announced it will add some muscle to its sports line up next year, taking guests to the biggest event on the Rugby League calendar – State of Origin – for the first time. I remember the first time I went on the Carnival Spirit, the memorabilia in the ‘Sports Bar’ was dominated…
Have you ever had a vague holiday thought, only to see it become an all-singing all-dancing vacation extravaganza seemingly on its own? Some people just ‘wing it’ when they go on holidays – others like to plan everything down to the finest detail. As for Shirley & I? We’re somewhere in the middle, I guess.…
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