Going Around Goa
The ship we cruised on during our visit to India was the CMV ship Vasco da Gama, named after the Portuguese explorer who discovered the first direct sea route from Europe around the Cape...
Author: Liz
Kochi and the Kerala Waterways
Arriving in Kochi (Cochin) India, we headed straight for Alleppey and the Kerala Backwaters. Known as the “Venice of the East”, this area is a vast network of lagoons, lakes, and canals along the...
A Walk Around Old Phuket Town
When you only have a day in Phuket and your hubby is off playing golf, what’s a person to do? We’ve stayed and explored the island for a week, years ago, but this time...
Penang Panoramas
We’ve been to mainland Malaysia before but this was the first time in Penang, Having a full day to wander around Georgetown, I devised a personal walking tour. With another couple from our cruise...
Spectacular Singapore
Back in 2003, our first visit to Singapore was simply a layover of 12 hours between connecting flights from Europe to Australia. We arrived very early in the morning and took a bus to...
Vasco Da Gama’s Maiden Voyage
I thought I’d found a bargain cruise! A ship that had started life as the HAL Statendam, then became the P&O Pacific Eden, had now been refurbished and rebadged as the Vasco Da Gama,...
Bonjour Nouméa!
When the opportunity presents itself to travel to a place where French is spoken, without the long haul to France, then who am I to resist? The islands of New Caledonia are only a...
Darting through Devon
Leaving Glastonbury, we headed off to the wilds of Dartmoor National Park. This is an area of granite tors and peat bogs, the latter providing inspiration for Conan Doyle in his ‘Hounds of the...
Somerset Gems – Ancient and New Age
The iconic Royal Crescent is one of the most well recognised scenes in Bath. Its Georgian architecture appears straight out of a Jane Austen novel. (Unfortunately wherever you go in Europe and the UK,...
Chester, Ludlow and Cardiff
The gloomy, wet weather stayed with us, but nothing could dampen my enthusiasm for the wonderful architecture of the town of Chester, Cheshire. Everywhere we looked, there were rows of black and white, half-timbered...
