Like many inhabitants of Southeast Asia, Cambodians don't buy a family car: they buy a family motorbike that can accommodate up to six people. Remaining "slim" is therefore a requirement for outings on the family transportation device. One way to…
Three days in Cambodia have left us all with a sense of awe for this relatively small nation in Southeast Asia which is still recovering from the brutality of the Pol Pot regime. There are now 15m people living here…
Our cycling group met on Sunday afternoon in the hotel lobby. There are 14 of us: 6 men, 8 women ranging from 21 to 63 years old and already I sense some blog worthy moments ahead. Our tour guide is…
At the boarding gate at Heathrow I was struck by the number of single middle-aged men who didn't look like they were going on a business trip. And I was one of them. I tried my best NOT to look…
We sailed into Messina on the northeastern tip of Sicily on Tuesday morning looking forward to our day on the largest island in the Mediterranean. The top five are Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete. Sicily is separated from the mainland…
Rhodes After a sea day we stopped at Rhodes which is the largest island in the Dodecanese Islands which are a group of 15 larger islands and 150 smaller ones. Other than Rhodes, Kos and Patmos are the most well…
Overnight we had sailed north to Haifa which is Israel's third largest city and the name Haifa is a female name meaning slender (unlike the English term Heifer meaning not so slender). I was booked on another tour only this…
Ashdod is the main port of Israel located about 25 miles north of the Gaza Strip. We were booked on a tour (I think the whole ship was booked on a tour) and we headed about 50 miles inland to…
Friday 21st was a sea day followed by a gala dinner. We had 5 new table mates and to say it didn't go well would be an understatement. After dinner Brenda, Susan and I had a post-mortem about our dining…
