This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. Dominica is one of the younger islands in the Caribbean – in fact, it is still quite active, in a volcanic sense. There are thousands of fumaroles – vents which allow volcanic gases to escape – across the island. There are also a number of these…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. We’ve mentioned that Dominica doesn’t get as many tourists as other Caribbean nations, partly because it has so few beaches, and is largely a volcanic island – quite steep and hilly. But what that means is that there ARE some lovely sights to be seen in…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. Dominica is an island country in the Caribbean; Dominican Republic is ALSO an Island country, in the Caribbean. So what’s the difference? Well, lots, actually! The Dominican Republic covers about half of the island of Hispaniola – it shares the island with Haiti – and is…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. Dominica is an island country in the Caribbean; also known as Dominique in French, or Wai’tu kubuli in the local Island Carib dialect. It’s one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles group of the West Indies (so – not all Caribbean islands are part of…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. The final image this week is of the only ship we’ve travelled on twice (so far) .. the Carnival Spirit. The Spirit is a 15 year old ship, and is the namesake of the Spirit class of vessels. She was the first of the ‘American’…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. The images have all been shots we have taken in, on or of cruise ships in our travels. Most we’ve actually traveled on – but a couple were passing us by (or, in this case, we passed above it!) This is the AIDAbella, moored in Singapore…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. It’s one of the most cliched images of cruising – the Champagne Fountain, on board cruise ships in the middle of a voyage. But like many cliches, it’s observed more in the public imagination than in reality any more. Oh, there’s champagne aplenty handed out on board…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. For Thursday, it’s a pic I snapped of the Azamara Quest, docked in Cairns. Azamara is a Royal Caribbean cruise line – but that’s a bit like saying a Lexus is a Toyota. Azamara is a premium cruise service – as witnessed by the size of…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. For Wednesday, we’re off to Road Town, on Tortola. It’s the capital of the British Virgin Islands, and home to about 12,000 people. It’s a centre of yacht chartering, as well as a destination for cruise ships like the MSC Musica, shown in today’s Travel Pic.…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. For Tuesday, it’s an interior shot from on board the Royal Caribbean’s Legend Of The Seas. Before we took our first cruise, we thought entertainment on board would be all shuffleboard, and bingo, and poker machines, and sitting on deck chairs reading Agatha Christie novels.…
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