2 Month Luxury Yachting Trip to Asia
Bored with business class? Have lots of time and money? Well, I’ve got an idea for you!
Seabourn is a cruise company that caters for the top end of the market in smaller, more intimate cruise ships. Actually, it prefers to call them ‘yachts’, and to refer to the experience as yachting. With a typical crew [...]
Have my luggage sent to the room, Jeeves.
One of the most depressing things about 21st century travel has to be dealing with luggage. Packing it, taking it to the airport, unpacking it, lugging it up and down escalators — you get the idea. I’m constantly baffled when I see celebrities like Victoria Beckham and Joan Collins pushing trolleys at airports full of [...]
Eclipse to the rescue!
Remember that volcano? Yeah – the one you couldn’t pronounce. Well, it was over a week ago now so no doubt you need reminding. A massive volcano errupted on Iceland and prevented tens of thousands of passengers from flying into British airspace. There was a lot of talk by the government to send the Royal [...]
Cunard prices released for transatlantic trips
I’ve got a plan to travel across the Atlantic by sea at some point – hopefully at the beginning of next year. Because I am a little obsessed with the idea I’ve been doing a lot of research on the matter. It turns out there are quite a lot more ships going across the Atlantic [...]
South Africa to Europe by sea
I’ve recently become rather obsessed with the idea of visiting my friend Yolande in South Africa, but flying there and back seems like a bit of a drag. Since I’m embarking on a world tour next year, I am going to try to fly as little as possible so this could be a good option [...]
A cruise idea I’ll be watching…
How often do you see ‘too good to be true’ offers online? Personally, I stumble across pages of the things every week. Usually they’re littered with bad, animated images and spelling mistakes. So when I found an eBay store offering cruise vouchers, with similarly ill-designed graphics I nearly clicked away.
But I thought it wise to [...]
Another way to see the world
Since taking time out of a career and ‘gap’ years are so fashionable now, I thought of sharing an idea with you that involves a lot of travelling and getting paid. And if you have sea-legs, then this might be a brilliant opportunity!
I am of course talking about getting a job on board a cruise [...]
A tip for flightless ‘around the world’ holidays
Ok, so you’re looking to go around the world and you don’t want to fly. That’s understandable : flying in planes makes your carbon footprint something of a monster. If you’re like me and believe that the journey there is quite a lot of the fun, then going overland will definitely appeal to you.
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Secret Kayak Cruise Search
Kayak is well known for its consolidated searches – you can compare airfares from different websites, as well as hotels and car rental. But did you realise that there’s also a cruise search? It’s not advertised on their main site, and it’s not usually available to web users outside the US. However, it holds database [...]