Exactly 12 months ago my wife and I visited the port of Sydney, Nova Scotia while cruising  Canada’s Eastern coastline aboard the P&O cruise ship, Arcadia…. Sydney is a former […]

St. John’s, a city on Newfoundland island off Canada’s Atlantic coast, has become a very popular port visit for cruise ships visiting Canada. It is the capital of Newfoundland and […]

Salerno is a port city southeast of Naples, Italy,  and is often utilised by cruise ships for visits to Pompeii, Herculaneum, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast. Indeed, Salerno is often […]

This review of Darwin has come about following news of the diversion of Queen Mary 2 from the Asian leg of her World Cruise due to the Corona Virus outbreak. […]

Earlier this year during a cruise across the Indian Ocean we made a stop at Port Victoria…  …on the Island of Mahe – the largest island in the Seychelles archipelago: that’s […]

Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is a densely populated bayside city on the island of Luzon, which mixes Spanish colonial architecture with modern skyscrapers. Its popularity as a cruise […]

Cape Town is a well known tourist hotspot and ever popular cruise ship destination. One of its attractions to cruise ship passengers is that it offers them the opportunity to […]

Earlier this year my wife and I visited the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, as a port of call while sailing onboard Cunard’s cruise ship, Queen Victoria… This was the first […]

A favourite port of call when cruise ships visit Vietnam is Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City,  though in matter of fact the nearest docking point for […]

  In recent years a  popular add-on to many Middle East and Indian Ocean cruises has been an inclusive guided tour of India’s Golden Triangle…   …and certainly looking ahead […]