Category: Mediterranean

It’s been a long day today. At 5am, the alarm on my phone went off, and we were up, dressed and standing on the pavement outside the Mercure Hotel, Heathrow, by 5:30am, ready to catch the Hoppa bus to the airport. I don’t do mornings… Fly-cruises are complex operations. I view them as a task list in which each stage...

On Tuesday the 27th of October, I will be joining Swan Hellenic’s MV Minerva, in Athens, for a two-week tour of the Mediterranean. Billed as ‘Landscapes of The Mediterranean’, the itinerary includes Piraeus (Athens); Santorini, Greece; Souda Bay, Greece; Valetta, Malta; Palermo, Sicily; Lipari, Italy; Stromboli Volcano; Catania, Sicily; Sarande, Albania and a passage through the ancient, and intriguing, Corinth Canal. I will...