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South Africa & Namibia

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 …

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Pirates of the Caribbean

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 …

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Up the Amazon

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 …

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Around the Horn 2022

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 …

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Adriatic Sea

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 …

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Aegean Sea

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 …

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Ionian Sea

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 …

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Invasion of England

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 …

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Zanzibar

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, …