Mississippi Cruise – Rolling on the River
One of my favourite cruises In those pre-pandemic days, I used to go on cruises fairly regularly – in fact, I’d notched up 60+ cruises on ships of all shapes and sizes and prize tags. Last year, on a blistering hot June day, I boarded the America Queen...
P&O’s Pacific Explorer grabs the headlines!
Ahoy cruise fans! Here’s a story about ships and the re-start of the Australian cruise industry. I know – a bit of a shock mateys. So strap yourself in, or nautically speaking tighten that life jacket, put on that floral lei, pour yourself a colourful...
Diamond Princess – Northern Asia
Turning Japanese – dare to bare in the bathhouse on Diamond Princess Making promises over dinner and a few wines is OK but when it comes to agreeing to go naked in a Japanese bathhouse, it’s perhaps best to decide when totally sober. A couple of us thought...
Reefer madness – lazy days on the Great Barrier Reef
Coral Expeditions to the Reef – Endless days of snorkelling bliss, as long as you’re wearing a stinger suit The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 2300 kilometres along the Queensland coast and is, in fact, made up of 3000 individual reefs and 600...
Ocean Endeavour – Greenland & Canada
Greenland has about 150km of roads and none of them link any two towns. However, it has dozens of fiords and hundreds of waterways, meaning almost everyone has a boat. So the best way for anyone to visit Greenland – which isn’t particularly green at all...
Norwegian Star – On board to welcome the new Millennium
I WAS one of the first people to celebrate the dawn of the new Millennium and one of the few still standing seven hours later when the sun rose over the International Date Line on January 1, 2000. I was aboard the Norwegian Star with 750 other passengers who had...
Star Flyer – my favourite cruise
“IT’S six o’clock on a languid afternoon in Thailand’s Andaman Sea. The sails of the tall ship Star Flyer are unfurled in the breeze. Volunteers eagerly step forward to help hoist them up the four masts while the rest of us watch sipping our cocktails. Then the...