At 5:00 a.m. one of our party was awoken by items falling onto the floor in the cabin above us. The sea was white with crashing wave tops and spume so much so that the moonlight ’s reflection made it easy to navigate the cabin without lights. We arrived offshore at Cartagena, Colombia at 06:25 …
Today we are at sea. It is lovely and warm and sunny but windy, as a result the Promenade Deck is closed, because passengers could easily be lost overboard. When went for breakfast the water in the pool on Deck 14 was like a rough sea, so much so that waves could wash a bather …
After a smooth overnight journey we moored at a buoy offshore from Georgetown, Grand Cayman. This is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and its name is thought to derive from the Carib peoples’ language for crocodile. However, there are more turtles here today and in fact Columbus in the 15th century called it …
Today we are at sea. We awoke this morning with a distant view of Cuba from our cabin window on the port side of the ship. We are leaving the Atlantic Ocean and by late afternoon will be heading south passing the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and entering the Caribbean Sea and travel overnight …
Today is embarkation day. There are 6 cruise ships in the port such as The Queen Elizabeth, Harmony of the Seas, which at the time of construction was the world’s biggest, capable of carrying some 7,000 passengers. Our ship, the Coral Princess, is not as large but still provides one with plenty of exercise to …
Today we explored the waterways which form the Port Everglades and the marina section of the Intercoastal Waterway. The water taxi took us from Pier 66 near our hotel passed endless numbers of luxury houses all, according to the tour guide, owned by somebody famous. The Americans on the boat seemed more interested in the …
Our flight to Miami from London Heathrow followed the most northerly Great Circle route because of the very strong headwinds. This route took us west of Derby, up the middle of the Pennines , across northwest Scotland and over Greenland at 61 degrees north. From here we went towards the south over the frozen rivers …
Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal.
We left Hong Kong today by taxi to the airport, as the driver’s first pick up he was proud to proclaim, and departed on an Emirates 777 to Dubai. We took off towards the east and before we could see the city we were in cloud. A brief respite in the cloud cover enabled us …
Today we took two open-top bus tours of Hong Kong Island. Both of them started at the Central Star Ferry pier. On the green route this morning we passed through the man-made canyons of glass and steel from the Two IFC Tower to The Bank of China, the complex at Admiralty Station and those at …