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After a 7 1/2 hour train ride from New York I arrived in Williamsburg on Thursday evening. I've not been here to for eight years and it was good to be back in one of the most beautiful residential settings…

As long as you can count, New York is an easy city to navigate your way around and in three and a half days I managed to do most of the sights including some repeats from my last visit 30…

Liaising with the chaps at Dubrovnik airport was seamless and my "hand luggage only" friends and I were on our way to the Sunsail base at the ACI Marina within minutes of them landing. Our boat for the week was…

After dropping Georgia at the airport I walked about 100 yards to pick up a car for three days. There's something satisfyingly convenient about a small airport with everything close at hand. They didn't have the car I wanted so…

After the BA computer malfunction on Saturday which caused chaos to thousands of travellers flying from Heathrow and Gatwick we were lucky to get away early on Sunday morning without incident. It was an early start which also means an…

Guadeloupe is the first island in the French West Indies that I have visited. Others include Martinique, Saint Martin and St Barts. There are two main islands - Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre which are both much bigger than I'd thought. Not…

After a couple of sea days we reached the Salvation Islands which are a group of three islands - Devil's Island, Saint-Joesph and Ile Royale. We visited Ile Royale which is the biggest although it still only took an hour…

After leaving Fortaleza we had another sea day as we headed north to the Amazon for a week visiting five different ports. Sea days are great for relaxing and possibly taking part in a new activity. During my morning walk…

Well Brazil is living up to its reputation as one of the most dangerous countries in the world. We'd been given numerous warnings about not going ashore wearing jewellery or watches and to be discreet with cameras and other electronic…

Simply stunning. Rio must rank as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Geographically it has advantages with islands, mountains, water and beaches that would make it attractive from the get go. The climate is also rather pleasant…