This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. For Tuesday, it’s sunken ships in the harbour of Port Vila, Vanuatu. Now, this is one of a number of wrecks that dot Iririki Island, the resort island in the middle of Port Vila – some…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. The images will all be 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. The first for the week is the first cruise ship we ever sailed on…
The theme for our travel pics this week is P for Pacific Islands. For Thursday, how about we head to Mystery Island, – arguably, the southern-most island in Vanuatu (there are also the Matthew and Hunter Islands – but they are disputed with New Caledonia). Anyway, Inyeug Island (to give Mystery Island its proper name)…
The theme for our travel pics this week is P for Pacific Islands. For Wednesday, we travel to Espiritu Santo, in Vanuatu. We were near a village called ‘Hog Harbour’ on the island when we took this picture of our ship, the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, as it lay at anchor in Champagne…
The theme for our travel pics this week is P for Pacific Islands. For Tuesday, an unusual image – this one is at Port Vila, in Vanuatu. When Tropical Cyclone Pam lashed Vanuatu in March 2015, it devastated the island nation with winds of more than 250km/hr – and the capital Port Vila, didn’t escape.…
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…
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…
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…
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