The theme for our travel pics this week is A – for Antigua. The waterfront at Antigua was as pretty as a postcard – and completely dominated by the 13-story floating block of flats that we were on (the MSC Musica) We went for a wander around to buy trinkets, and drink beer – but like most…
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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…
I’m relaunching this blog page tomorrow – and part of the redesign will be Tuesday Cruiseday posts .. but I thought I’d post this here, first. With all the bad PR that P&O is getting over the Aria and the Eden (and questions about whether they were rushed through their refurbishments), you may have missed…
It’s been an interesting week or two around the CairnsComms world HQ – what with visits to see my 91 year old mum, and Christmas, and other disruptions. That’s why the blogsite’s been just a bit … moribund … for much of December. But as of Friday, we have a new year – and a…
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…
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