We sailed from Bombay (now Mumbai) for Muscat (which is in Oman), and we planned for a few changes. The first officer was due to leave us when we arrived in Dubai, and the second officer would be moved up to first, and I was to be the second officer – all very temporary, but […]
There were eight of us (four couples) and we’d visited Malaysia & Sri Lanka so where next. Because I was responsible for arranging the two previous holidays the question was aimed at me. I was reading ‘Brighton Rock’ by Graham Green, so I thought why not Vietnam to see the Continental Hotel in Saigon (now […]
Some years ago I’d visited the statue of the dog on a tucker box when I drove back to Sydney from Melbourne. I knew that Maureen hadn’t seen this statue, so I planned a small diversion for her to visit Gundagai (pronounced Gun-da- guy say it quickly) on the home would leg of our road […]
I’m sure half the crew working in the galley are frustrated artists of one kind or another. We saw their work when on a galley tour, but on certain days they produced fancy cakes. Not having sweet tooth, I was happy to photograph, but not to eat, because once I started to eat I was bothered […]
There were eight of us (four couples) and we’d visited Malaysia & Sri Lanka so where next. Because I was responsible for arranging the two previous holidays the question was aimed at me. I was reading ‘Brighton Rock’ by Graham Green, so I thought why not Vietnam to see the Continental Hotel in Saigon (now […]
Some years ago I’d visited the statue of the dog on a tucker box when I drove back to Sydney from Melbourne. I knew that Maureen hadn’t seen this statue, so I planned a small diversion for her to visit Gundagai (pronounced Gun-da- guy say it quickly) on the home would leg of our road […]
I’ve always loved North & Mid Wales, perhaps because my mother was Welsh and only when the family moved from Caernarvon (Carnarfon to be PC) to Birkenhead, when she was thirteen, did she start to learn English. When my mother spoke of the move she would comment that she moved to England, which sounded strange to me as […]
MV Pundua – ordered by the M.O.W.T (Ministry of War for Transport) in 1945, but was delivered to British India Steam Navigation Co. when launched. The Company had 105 ships at the outbreak of WW2, and during the war they lost 51 vessels due to enemy action. They also managed 72 other vessels, and of […]
The history of Qatar can be traced back 50,000 years. Throughout history various empires controlled the peninsular on which Doha stands . Qatar is the purple bit which is a peninsular, not an island. Manama is the capital of Bahrain and not part of Qatar. Qatar became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1872, and […]
The old part of Rostock (rebuilt after WW2) – the white piano was being played while we walked around and it was very pleasant to hear it in the background. The day was warm and the children seemed to be having great fun dodging the intermittent water fountains. Rostock was to be our last port […]
La Boca – the area within Buenos Aires that is influenced strongly by the Italians. Many of the early migrants came from Genoa. In 1882, after a long strike, the area seceded from Argentina and the rebels raised the Genoese flag, which was immediately torn down personally by then President of Argentina Julio Roca. Remember I […]
The old part of Rostock (rebuilt after WW2) – the white piano was being played while we walked around and it was very pleasant to hear it in the background. The day was warm and the children seemed to be having great fun dodging the intermittent water fountains. Rostock was to be our last port […]
During our time in Thailand we decided to visit the ‘railway’ market, and on the way we stopped to see the salt fields. The salt is not mined but created through evaporation from seawater. The railway market has grown in popularity since out first visit about eight years ago. The market is across the road […]
The old part of Rostock (rebuilt after WW2) – the white piano was being played while we walked around and it was very pleasant to hear it in the background. The day was warm and the children seemed to be having great fun dodging the intermittent water fountains. Rostock was to be our last port […]
