Travel Adventures

To set the scene its a calm evening mid thirties with a gentle breeze hitting our skin. We are on the edge of the Black Desert and in the near distance pyramid like orange sand dunes stand high and proud. We mount our ride. These animals are Dromedary39s given the fact they have one hump and not two like true camels. Leanne is on the crazy lead camel called Bob Marley whilst Mick is given th

Dear All How are you all and has the summer arrived yet We apologise for the lack of any contact for a while but Masanga has the most appalling reception and Internet so connecting with the outside world is a constant difficulty. Contacting relatives to reassure them of our health is difficult enough let alone trying to conduct a professional relationship with the rest of the world. It39s a

Another day and they are being ticked off now as we start the countdown to going home. More of our holiday has gone than is left. Suzy spent the night in a fairly quiet site once the noisy Italians had gone to bed. They do have fun these Italians. The morning started off badly with the heavy rain beating on Suzys roof. It felt cold too and the young girl serving in the shop said that it felt

there is a certain smell about Turkey that I really like. I39m not sure if its the soap they use or perfumecologne but I hope that I never forget the smell. Other than getting attacked by a mosquito right now I39m quite enjoying myself. last night in Mykonos i met a motherdaughter from London and gay Pakistani who lives in Switzerland at a wonderful restaurant. We drank wine and laughed a

Days of Cruising on ltem stylemsobidifontstyle normalgtThe Legend of the SeasWe left Dubai that evening and headed south along the coast of Oman and Yemen and then into the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea where we will cruise for the next 6 days covering close to 5000 nautical miles.On the second day of cruising we had the usual all people on deck drill and on the next day they h

That should read ... Another glorious day in paradise While said tongueincheek it is fast becoming a stockphrase out here in these parts when we wake up to another blue sky with lots of sunshine and hot temperatures. Before you all start berating me for this the temperature is that little bit too hot where you come over all diabetic half way through the day and have no energy to do an

So close but still so far away. Spring snow anyone Actually it feels more like winter. Today39s ride was extremely cold. What started out as a dry crisp clear cool morning rapidly turned into a freezing cold wet winter39s day with temperatures on the bike guage dipping down to 2 degrees. Add wind chill at 100 kmh and you can see why we were frozen numb and fed up two hours into the ride

Suzy had her headlights and back windows cleaned today before we headed off for Forli . We had laughed yesterday as we saw a Thai lady standing at the traffic lights waiting for cars to stop. As they stopped three deep she ran to first car washed the headlights and asked for the money. This process was repeated at the second car and at the third before she moved to the second row and started again

After a typical SW flight smooth and comfortable I arrived at Ft. Lauderdale early and taxied to the Embassy Suites where I checked in and shown to a wonderful corner room on the top floor with a great view of the port. I39m thinking this is the best room in the house. I took a walk to Total Wine and picked up a bottle for our CruiseCritic wine tasting then headed to the terrace for the Manag

This morning I woke up to the sound of gongs and chants from the nearby monasteries. It39s a peaceful hypnotic sound and I fell back asleep feeling strangely comfortable in this new completely foreign place. I39m in Bhouda or Boudhanath a holy site in Kathmandu. At the center of the area is a stupa a kind of circular religious shrine where pilgrims come to pray and meditate. It39s c