One way to do Historical Portsmouth
Continuing my series of ‘One Way to Do…’ I decided, having seen the foreign interest in the blog through the ‘Flag Counter’, that this edition will be as much for visitors […]
Category Archives: Port Reviews
One Way to do New York – Brooklyn to Central Park via the Highline Walk
My wife and I arrived in New York on board Queen Mary 2 before sailing up the Eastern seaboard to Quebec. This gave us just the one day in New York and we […]
One Way to Do Buenos Aires Part 1
On completion of our 14 night Antarctica cruise on board the Celebrity Infinity… …my wife and I disembarked in Buenos Aires for a 3 day extension to our South American […]
One Way to do The Falklands
My wife and I visited the Falklands Islands in February 2013 while cruising on board Celebrity Infinity. A full review of that particular cruise can be found by following this […]
One Way to do Zeebrugge – Ghent Edition
Zeebrugge is becoming a more and more popular port of call with the increase in the number of shorter cruises from the United Kingdom. Zeebrugge itself offers very little in the […]
One way to do Aqaba – Wadi Rum edition
In his book ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ T E Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, wrote ….. “The crimson sunset on its stupendous cliffs and slanted ladders of hazy […]
One way to do St. Petersburg
Welcome to St Petersburg Pictured above outside Catherine Palace, St Petersburg is Solent Richard with Julia, our exceptional Alla Tours guide. We were visiting St Petersburg as part of […]
One way to do Athens from Piraeus
Athens is a very popular cruise ship port visit though cruise ships scheduled to visit Athens actually dock at the port of Piraeus: which is some distance from the city […]
One way to do Odessa
Continuing my series of ‘One way to do…’ here is an offereing from one of the Black Sea ports we visited on our recent P&O Azura cruise. Hope you enjoy […]
One Way to Do Yalta
On a recent P&O Azura cruise to the Black Sea we called at the Crimean Southern Ukrainian port of Yalta. Continuing this blog series of ‘One way to do…’ this […]
Shore Excursion to Wadi Rum, Jordan
Solent Richard surveys Wadi Rum from Lawrence Spring… The full review and details of our time in Wadi Rum, complete with many photographs, can be found under Port Reviews […]
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