A bellboy in a bright red uniform wearing a pillbox cap opened the door for me with a smile. The deck staff waved in greeting as they touched up the paint and swabbed the decks […]
I’m sitting — well all right, slouching — in a honky tonk bar where the piano man is playing on a stage that revolves and customers put dollar bills in his Mason jar when they […]
A good friend who’s travelled almost as much as I have has a saying: There are one-day cities and weekend cities and then there’s Hong Kong. That’s worth a week. We agree wholeheartedly. If you can […]
The contrasts between old and new couldn’t be starker that in Vietnam today. As Oceania Cruises’ luxurious Nautica docked near downtown Saigon, a rust-eaten freighter at the next slip was being unloaded the same way […]
In Bangkok, there always seems to be a buzz. The roads teem with motorcycles and un-mufflered three-wheeled cabs known as tuk-tuks. On the river, “longtail” boats get their push from growling V-8 engines that are […]
It was 9 a.m. and I was doing something I never do at that hour: knocking back an after dinner drink. Six of us on a private van tour were visiting a citrus grove on […]
I’ve just had an overdose of quaint. On an all-day excursion from Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas in Italy, my tour to the picturesque Cinque Terre region was a day-long feast of views of […]
I’ve finally discovered what it’s like to be a pampered cat purring in the lap of luxury. And of all places, it’s on an airplane. It’s bed time on my Emirates Airlines flight to Dubai […]
After an event-filled two week cruise on Silversea’s Silver Spirit in the Middle East, I finally had the time to look at the photos I took in Dubai, where it all started. And I did […]
It’s probably easier to get high in Juneau than anywhere in the world. Holland America’s Volendam docked in Alaska’s capital right next to the entrance of a cable car that in minutes can whisk visitors […]
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