Small, specific and local attractions for towns and destinations through our travel and expat living.
As we sailed from Bristol it was cold and raining steadily so we headed straight to dinner. The following two days as we cruised South the sun got warmer and with the Bay of Biscay as calm as a millpond we were able to relax on the deck in the sunshine as we sailed along …
With Brexit, the hammering of the British pound, and just the U.K. economy going somewhat down the crapper, it has become a whole lot cheaper to travel in the U.K. through the past days. And this is why we have been doing so, including our recent road trip through the Scottish Highlands, and just various …
I have in fact spent most of my life in Northern Ireland, given I was born here, so you’d think I would have covered a fair few of the below destinations and attractions in my lifetime. Yet ironically, it wasn’t until recent years, when living in Asia, that I ticked off most of the destinations …
As I reflect on the cruise I realise that I have just missed 4 months of the coldest and most miserable winter for years. Instead, we travelled 35,000 miles in temperatures rarely below the mid-twenties and visited 42 ports on 5 continents. We changed our watches 28 times as we moved through different time zones …
As we left the Suez Canal, after our Asia and the Indian Ocean leg, of our Round-the-World Cruise (and the Transatlantic Cruise and French Polynesia and Pacific Cruise before that). We began the final stage a ten-day crossing of the Mediterranean and then on to London. We were mainly at sea but had three more ports to …
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Continuing from the Transatlantic Cruise and French Polynesia and Pacific Cruise, we left Darwin on the 4th of March (Day 61) and set sail for our Asia and Indian Ocean Cruise. Our first stop was the Indonesian Island of Komodo the home of the notorious Komodo dragon the largest living lizard in the world. On leaving …
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Continued from London to Panama on a ‘Round the World Cruise’… On leaving Panama we headed south-west to French Polynesia. This was the longest single section of our cruise a distance of 5000 miles and nine days at sea. This time was probably the most relaxed period of my entire life. We had no contact …
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I don’t fly. So when in February 2017 my daughter sent me an Email with details of a round-the-world cruise the following January I was quite excited. The cruise would visit 5 continents and 40 plus countries or territories most of which I had never visited. I booked it immediately and on a cold Friday …
A new year, a new adventure. Only this year it was a less likely destination, and an even lesser likely adventure, as we take another… step backwards, this time myself seeking full-time employment in the U.K. Which was overall a rather depressing and degrading experience, but it was necessary to test the water for a …
This is quite probably the least likely post for me to share, given my deep hatred for shopping, but being a married man and the perfect husband, I thought I’d share past experiences, to make them feel worthwhile. This is of course a beginner’s guide to jewellery shopping in Bangkok, as my early experiences barely …