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 […]

Earlier this year my wife and I visited the Hawaiian Islands while cruising onboard Star Princess…   https://solentrichardscruiseblog.com/2018/04/01/star-princess-hawaiian-islands-adventure/   The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls […]

The Indonesian island of Bali is a tourist’s dream, offering a wide variety of culture, religion, excellent scenery, beaches and fine temperatures. It is also an island of many parts […]

The Indonesian island of Bali is a tourist’s dream offering a wide variety of culture, religion, excellent scenery, beaches and fine temperatures – being just 8 degrees south of the […]

In October 2017 my wife and I had the good fortune to be on a cruise transiting the Java Sea which called at Jakarta, Indonesia’s Capital city. Jakarta is a […]