“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

Posted by on Apr 30, 2013 in Cruising, USA | 0 comments Through one of my first jobs in London in the early ‘90’s I met and worked with people from all over the world.  Ghanans, Polish, Somalians, Brazilians, and of course always heaps of Aussies and Kiwi’s. It was here that I met Alexandre, a Brazilian guy who I subsequently travelled with and later lived for some time with his family in Brazil, while also fitting in a bit of travel through...
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‘Too blessed to be stressed’ – DIPS in the Caribbean Part 2

Posted by on Apr 25, 2013 in Aruba, Cruising, St Maarten, St Thomas, USA | 0 comments   Curaçao (as in Blue Curaçao) located just off the Venezuelan coast was where I woke up on my birthday – how lucky am?!  After opening a few small gifts and after my breakfast of choice – fresh fruit, scrambled egg and smoked salmon for breakfast we head ashore.  Again with no excursion pre-arranged (we prefer to wing it than pay exorbitant shore excursions); we walk off the...
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DIPS in the Caribbean. Part 1

Posted by on Apr 20, 2013 in Aruba, Caribbean, Colombia, Cruising | 0 comments   Aruba, Jamaica ooh I want to take you To Burmuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montego, baby why don’t we go? Ooh I want to take down to Kokomo  ….. ever since reading about the destinations of the Caribbean cruises I couldn’t get this song out of my head – sad, but true. After the success of our cruise around the Mediterranean, we knew that another...
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Cruising the Med part 2 – ports of call

Posted by on Feb 28, 2013 in Cruising, France, Italy, Spain | 1 comment We arrived into Barcelona on time at 9am via Ryanair after a very early start in Budapest and caught a taxi directly to the port for €28 – and back into the land of western prices.  Although our cruise ship wasn’t scheduled to sail until 6pm, we could leave our bags and complete the check-in procedure then have a few hours in downtown Barcelona ahead of our official boarding time of...
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DIPS cruises around the Med

Posted by on Feb 28, 2013 in Cruising, France, Italy, Spain | 1 comment After many long nights trawling the internet in Budapest and languishing over where to go next, we came to the conclusion that travel in Eastern Europe during winter was not going to be straight forward. Many of the low cost airlines simply don’t fly in this region during these months of year. Our departure date to Iceland from Berlin had already been fixed for the 8th of March, and we would...
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