18.02.2023 Amsterdam, Netherlands After a long flight from St. Martin, we arrived at Schiphol. There was no possibility of an upgrade for me, but H was back in Business for the next long flight to Cape Town. H made enough fuss to get me in the KLM lounge for breakfast. Our bags arrived at Cape …
27.12.2022 Puerto Limon, Costa Rica H was busy so it was just me going ashore. I didn’t go far though. Just a walk through the town again. I still can’t find anything good to say about the place. 28.12.2022 Colón, Panama This time we had an explore. We hired a taxi to take us to …
09.12.2022 Manaus to Ocho Rios We flew out of Manaus to Panama City and on to Montego Bay. We had to have some stern words with the no-name car rental company in Montego Bay who failed to show up as agreed but we eventually got on the road in a battered but working car and …
01.12.2022 San Antonio, Chile to Manaus, Brazil We disembarked AIDAmar at the port of San Antonio and got a car to Santiago de Chile airport. The flight was first to Sao Paulo where we collected bags and cleared immigration into Brazil. Once again, our Apple Airtags gave a sense of security, possibly entirely false sense …
26/10/2022, Hamburg Germany, (0 NM) There was some fanfare, as expected, for this most prestigious cruise departure. AIDAmar swanned up the Elbe River from Hamburg-Altona through the middle of the night-lit city before turning for the long run downstream to the sea. Passengers, and landlubbers ashore, waved their lights on their phones and the ship’s …
We are expecting to start a long cruise on the 26th October out of Hamburg, but I was able to join the same ship a bit early for a more pedestrian five-day cruise in the English Channel. This was not without its own drama. Preparations for being away from home for an extended time involved …
During late August I packed up our temporary apartment in Frankfurt-Oberursel and got everything ready for moving back across country to Schulzendorf. By September 4th we were back in the boatyard in Preveza attempting to get boat repairs organised and failing in an attempt to source a new engine. Engines, like most other things, have …
I had three cruises in the Adriatic Sea in this busy summer. These were in between cruises in the Ionian Sea and the Aegean Sea and working on boat repairs in Preveza. Adriatic cruises begin in Corfu with a seaday to Trieste followed by stops in Zadar, Kotor, Dubrovnik, Bari and back to Corfu 19th …
H returned to Corfu in late May, and I needed a break from boat-repairing in Preveza so I jumped back on board H’s ship for a week’s cruise into the Aegean Sea from 29.05-05.06.2022, calling at Santorini, Chania, Kusadasi, Piraeus/Athens and back to Corfu. The archaeological museum on Santorini, where they keep the famous Minoan …
I flew to Corfu with H from BER and stayed overnight at the Corfu Holiday Palace near the airport. The next day H got a transfer to the port to join her ship. I rented a car at the airport. For dinner, I had the inevitable ouzo, Greek salad, and moussaka at Café Kanoni. The …
In late March my old dad had a fall and was carted off to hospital and my old mum was in a state about it so we set off from Frankfurt to help. Normally, flying is the way we travel there but this time we needed a car for an unspecified time and car-rentals out …
19.03-27.03.2022 Frankfurt-Zanzibar-Frankfurt. After a fairly bleak winter, where my father-in-law died and Covid was causing travel irritations, we finally had the chance to get back on the road. We wanted a bit of sunshine without too much of a time-zone hassle and decided on somewhere in Africa. The Canaries, Cape Verdes, Maldives, Morocco, Egypt, Eritrea, …