With the tightening of restrictions to cruise ships visiting Amsterdam, Rotterdam has seen an increase in the number of cruise ships now visiting this busy port. Welcome to how my […]

A Coruña is a Spanish port on the Atlantic coast and is becoming a popular port of call for British cruise ships. It is a historic city that over time […]

Bilbao is a Spanish city that is proving very popular for UK departing cruise ships on 7 day itineraries and has some excellent places of interest that can be seen […]

A popular destination for cruise ships whilst visiting Norway – Flåm presents a number of opportunities to attract the interests of passengers and visitors alike…. Flåm sits at the head of the Aurlandsfjord […]

  Honfleur in a Day   Hello and welcome to this edition of my series in How to do a port visit. This particular blog is designed to show how […]

Charlottetown  is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.   It is a popular port with cruise ships and has a considerable historical heritage […]

On a recent cruise my wife and I made our maiden call to Port Elizabeth on South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. For most cruise  ship visits the big attraction for […]

Hard to believe that it is still less than 12 months ago when my wife and I visited the port of Pointe a Pitre on the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe. […]

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 […]