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...
Lights, action, sequins – shipboard shows sizzle
From Broadway razzmatazz to risque burlesque, cruise shows just keep getting better They say the show must go on and when it comes to entertainment on the high seas, it’s full steam ahead. A night out in the ship’s theatre has always been the mainstay of...
Lombok – turtles, turquoise water and a touch of paradise
It’s the perfect time to visit Lombok before Bali’s little cousin loses its peaceful persona Spiritual experiences are often hard to come by although I was once moved to tears as the bells of Prague’s Loreta church rang out during an afternoon of...
Venice citizens sick of cruise ships – a new ban is announced
Death in Venice – is the cruise ship industry loving Venice too much? Situated on the edge of the Adriatic Sea and surrounded by water, one imagines Venice as the ideal cruise destination. Well it is — it’s just that the city’s dwindling...
Uzbekistan Adventure – mosques, madrasahs and mosaics
Travels of the exotic kind – following the Silk Route from Tashkent to Khiva CRIMINALS and unfaithful wives were thrown from the Kalyan Minaret in Bukhara, known as the Tower of Death. I look up at this magnificent structure, 47 metres high, built in the...
San Franciso – Hippy Heaven
In San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district I went looking for the last rays of the Summer of Love. I’d missed the hippy revolution, being straight jacketed in a school uniform imprisoned behind Catholic school gates in the heady days of 1967. In Haight Street I spied...