Savusavu is on the island Vanua Levu, which is on the smaller of the two larger Fijian islands, and I have marked the location. Savusavu is unspoiled & a place that is unhurried and free of most modern trappings and has managed to retain much of yesteryear. Savusavu was a popular trading port for sailing […]
During the Corona Virus lock down, I decided to do a spot of Spring cleaning of my study. All went well at the beginning until I started to find things that I’d forgotten about, so of course I welcomed the distraction by checking out my own bits & pieces, which I had not seen for […]
Floating Market outside Bangkok. Hire a boat and enjoy the experience. They cater for all tastes. Access to the market can be made from the landward side. We walked through the market to get to the boats. The locals also buy from the boat people. The young girl had just bought a hot meal. Most […]
According to Robert Louis Stevenson – ‘I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.’ I visited the UK to take part in a reunion – it had been fifty years since I left the nautical college HMS Conway to go to sea – once […]
I’d been out East for just over a year sailing in the waters of the Far East and down to Australia & New Zealand, and in the last month or so my sore throat had been getting worse. Originally I thought it was a standard sore throat and that it would ‘go away’ in due […]
As I sat in the transit lounge at Tehran airport & scanned my ticket – it was a BOAC ticket, but the the airline was Qantas. As was the boarding pass The aircraft in 1968 was a B 707 /138, which had been modified by Qantas with a turbofan and they renamed their modified aircraft […]
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 […]
March, 2015 Road Trip Sydney, Wagga Wagga, Beechworth, Hay, Mildura, Broken Hill, Tanunda, Adelaide, Robe, Ballarat, Albury, Sydney. 4305 km door to door. My wife and I have seen quite a lot of Asia so we thought it was about time that we saw some more of Australia. We decided to visit Adelaide, which would […]
Breakfast was in the hotel, after which, we were ferried by private Emirate Airline car to the airport, for the final leg of our journey to Rome. Departure area in Dubai Airport – very clean and impressive. We passed through emigration & security & boarded a train for the short ride to the satellite area. […]
As I sat in the transit lounge at Tehran airport & scanned my ticket – it was a BOAC ticket, but the the airline was Qantas. As was the boarding pass The aircraft in 1968 was a B 707 /138, which had been modified by Qantas with a turbofan and they renamed their modified aircraft […]
During our holiday in Chiang Mai in Thailand we decided to have a ride on an elephant – to be honest the tour that we paid for was a for water rafting, which included a ride on an elephant. Having ridden on an elephant at Chester zoo, when I was a child, I expected something […]
Breakfast was in the hotel, after which, we were ferried by private Emirate Airline car to the airport, for the final leg of our journey to Rome. Departure area in Dubai Airport – very clean and impressive. We passed through emigration & security & boarded a train for the short ride to the satellite area. […]
Llangollen to me means two things, beyond the beauty of the town of course, – the international music eisteddfod and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, so when we visited the UK for our self drive, self catering holiday with our Australian friends, Llangollen was on the list. In 1943 the British Council organised for members of governments in exile […]
We were advised that we would not get wet when rafting, because we would be sitting on small seats that would keep our clothes from being wet. That was a joke! We watched as the rafts were being created from poles of bamboo. The rafts are floated down river carrying the ‘dry’ tourists and dismantled […]
