B.H.S = Boredom – Heat – Sand (and for my British readers BHS is not British Home Stores!) We sailed from Muscat for Doha, but for some reason, which I can’t remember, we were diverted to Bahrain, which is 130 km ( 81 miles) as the crow flies from Doha, but a little longer by […]
We docked alongside a working port called Phu My (pronounced Foo Me) in Vietnam. The port is about a 90-minute bus ride to Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh. Many of the locals still refer to Ho Chi Minh as Saigon. The Diamond Princess was too large to sail to Saigon, so we had to […]
We left the ship in Singapore on the 11th April – my 72nd birthday, and moved to the Concorde Hotel on Orchard Road. We’d stayed at the Concorde Hotel in Kuala Lumpur so we were aware of the standard. Having visited Singapore on and off since 1963, every new visit is a new learning curve. […]
As soon as we had the required time living in Australia we applied for Australian citizenship in Melbourne. It was planned for us to take the oath and to attend a citizen ceremony until Skypak asked me to move to Sydney, which put an end to our citizenship plans in Melbourne. We had to start […]
Check the pronunciation of Budapest – it ends as ‘pesht’ not ‘pest’. On arrival at Budapest station from Prague we had to buy our onward tickets to Vienna. I’d tried to buy them over the internet, but Hungary’s rail system would not allow this to happen. We found the office for international tickets and entered, […]
As we entered Copenhagen we were being followed – Sapphire Princess again, and later the Queen Victoria. Copenhagen is located on the island of Zealand. According to legend the Swedish King Gylfe allowed the Norse Goddess Gefjun to carve out of Sweden as much land as she could plough in twenty four hours. The Goddess […]
Before the sale of our house in Melbourne was finalised, I was required to fly to Sydney each Monday morning and stay in the airport until close of business on Friday evening, after which I would fly back to Melbourne. At that time, the hotel near the airport was the Hilton, and I became so […]
Before the sale of our house in Melbourne was finalised, I was required to fly to Sydney each Monday morning and stay in the airport until close of business on Friday evening, after which I would fly back to Melbourne. At that time, the hotel near the airport was the Hilton, and I became so […]
We docked alongside a working port called Phu My (pronounced Foo Me) in Vietnam. The port is about a 90-minute bus ride to Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh. Many of the locals still refer to Ho Chi Minh as Saigon. The Diamond Princess was too large to sail to Saigon, so we had to […]
As we entered Copenhagen we were being followed – Sapphire Princess again, and later the Queen Victoria. Copenhagen is located on the island of Zealand. According to legend the Swedish King Gylfe allowed the Norse Goddess Gefjun to carve out of Sweden as much land as she could plough in twenty four hours. The Goddess […]
It was 1982 and things were ticking over nicely, but I was unhappy with our consignment notes that we handed out to our customers. The above example was produced as continuous stationery, partly to make the production easier and partly to maximise the stowage of new consignment notes into neat piles once the box was […]
B.H.S = Boredom – Heat – Sand (and for my British readers BHS is not British Home Stores!) We sailed from Muscat for Doha, but for some reason, which I can’t remember, we were diverted to Bahrain, which is 130 km ( 81 miles) as the crow flies from Doha, but a little longer by […]
We docked alongside a working port called Phu My (pronounced Foo Me) in Vietnam. The port is about a 90-minute bus ride to Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh. Many of the locals still refer to Ho Chi Minh as Saigon. The Diamond Princess was too large to sail to Saigon, so we had to […]
Check the pronunciation of Budapest – it ends as ‘pesht’ not ‘pest’. On arrival at Budapest station from Prague we had to buy our onward tickets to Vienna. I’d tried to buy them over the internet, but Hungary’s rail system would not allow this to happen. We found the office for international tickets and entered, […]
