So this time it’s off to Planet Penguin. Having committed to this in a moment of weakness, by the time we’d stopped off at Auckland via...

From Havana, it was an overnight sail around the north-west tip of Cuba and south headed for the Panama Canal. We stopped off at Cayman...

A highlight of Alaska, Glacier Bay is good tourist stuff, but, as usual, I managed to get utterly sidetracked by a nearby attraction –...

After checking into the Quito Swissotel, I met up with Lynne and Ed at the bar at 6pm, with much laughter all round. Their friends Morris and Anne duly arrived, then we headed for the Theatrum Hotel, which is in a beautiful colonial theatre in the town centre, for an excellent meal (ceviche, saffron risotto with shrimp, sabayon). (The old cities of Quito and Havana were the first cities to be declared world heritage sites.) The flight from Quito next morning put us down in th

Having departed Oman, we spent a couple of days delightfully at sea, and at leisure. Lazy breakfasts to start, a bit of sport baiting the...