Author: Neil

Our pre-cruise planning document has us taking the tram from the port up to the aquarium. We learn that there will be […]

Notwithstanding the horrific atom bomb, Nagasaki has other connotations for us. First though, we pass the gardens of the city hall, walk […]

We are promised a lovely sea day, but the weather gods have other plans.  From early morning, the rain comes and goes, […]

Mark is guest writer today – making his come-back some six and a third years after the last time he wrote the […]

We’re spending our second Taiwan day in the port of Keelung where we are parked. It’s 32° and high humidity so we […]

We pull into Keelung City with views over the huge cargo operation here. It’s our first balcony breakfast too.  As you’ll know […]

We always say every day cannot get better – if it did the previous ones would depreciate in value, and by the […]

Naha is the capital of Okinawa, one of the more southerly islands of the Japanese chain. It has a population of only […]

Sea days are wonderful when the weather is good, but rather less attractive if it’s inclement. After two dull and bouncy sea […]

Our fifth sea-day out of seven, and the second in a row. Since we left Yokohama we will have travelled around 500 […]