Packing it in
(Photo courtesy Australian Frequent Flyers) It pays to be organised when travelling, particularly with your luggage. With many airlines cracking down on carry-on size and weight limits, it is worth taking the time to...
Category: Cruises
The Amalfi Coast
We’ve been to the Amalfi Coast twice now. The first was during a driving holiday in Italy and it was an unnerving experience for a number of reasons. I was driving along the freeway near Salerno,...
Walking the Walls – Dubrovnik
“You must walk the walls!” friends had urged us. So when the Celebrity Silhouette docked in Dubrovnik that was the chief thought in our minds. Thanks to our research on tomsportguides.com we were able...
Historic Split and Trogir
Our cruise ship, Celebrity Silhouette, was required to moor around the point of the Split peninsula because there were already two other cruise ships in port, so we caught the tender in to the...
San Marino
Totally surrounded by Italy, San Marino is the oldest surviving sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world, having been founded in 301 AD. It is just over 61 sq km in size, which...
A Rainy Day in Slovenia
An Adriatic cruise From Venice to Rome enticed us with the promise of visiting not only Italy, but also Slovenia, San Marino, Croatia, Montenegro and Malta. Our first stop was the city of Koper,...
10 Tips for Reducing Travel Stress
Are you someone who is new to travelling? Do you worry about things going wrong and stress out over all the aspects of travel that need to be organised? Even those people who love...
St Thomas, US Virgin Islands
According to the website CruiseTT, this port was going to be brimming with cruise passengers as five big ships were due in that day. St Thomas is one of the US Virgin Islands and...
