Category: Uncategorised

I’m pleased to be able to announce that I have just had three new cruise assignments confirmed for 2018. In January 2018, I will be returning to The Amazon and West Indies (this will be my seventh visit) on the MV Magellan… very excited about that, of course; it means I’ll get to visit Iles Du Salut again – possibly...

I recently had a chat in a comfy chair with Julie Peasgood, for the TV Cruise Channel (Sky Digital channel 261 from 7am to 7pm every day)…  

Today, we arrived in Manta, Ecuador, and our first tour escorting duty of the cruise. Manta is the Tuna Capital of the world, apparently, and just to emphasise that point, a huge netful of tuna was being lifted from a fishing vessel to the back of a truck just as we came down the gangway after breakfast. Tracey and I...

It’s come around again so quickly; it only seems like yesterday that we were coming home from the Minerva and the Black Sea. Tomorrow, I will be joining the Marco Polo for its 50th Anniversary Commemorative Cruise to Greenland and Canada… Happy Birthday Marco Polo! There’s still a bunch of packing to do, but I have mountains of art materials bagged...