Iceland is a land of fire and ice. Fire melts ice. Ice is frozen water. So, when you visit Iceland… … you will get wet! I visited Iceland on board Cunard’s Queen Victoria. This voyage included 3 stops in Iceland; the first port was Akureyri (part 1), followed by Ísafjörður and finally Reykjavik. Ísafjörður…
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Visit Iceland: Get ready, get set… get wet! (Part 1)
Iceland is a land of fire and ice. Fire melts ice. Ice is frozen water. So, when you visit Iceland… … you will get wet! The Icelandic people are welcoming and want their visitors to immerse themselves in Icelandic culture and activities, But… … immersion somehow always involves visitors getting wet! My visit to Iceland…
Words of Wisdom #7
When packing to travel don’t forget the importance of travelling light mindfully, as well as baggage-wise. Just pack the core values – love, compassion and kindness. Leave behind the heavy stuff that weighs you down – resentment, regret, cynicism and anger.
Turkey is my Camelot – return to Istanbul (part 5)
I have come to see a lot of similarities between Turkey and Camelot probably because I find them both so alluring. Camelot was a land of legends with knights, a round table and the search for the Holy Grail. Turkey had its own legends involving sultans, domed mosques and the search for the best trade route along the silk…
Another November in Turkey (part 4) – 24 years later.
I fell in love with Turkey as a young backpacker in the late 1980s and have never stopped talking about my experiences since. After 24 years of retelling my tales to anyone who would listen, I returned to Turkey in 2010. On a glorious autumn morning in November Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth sailed across the Aegean from Athens…
The music is all around us
(As posted by Emma on She Goes – Thursday, January 13, 2011 · 3 Comments The Music Is All Around Us By Genevieve Frew Prior to a recent overseas trip, I prided myself on being organised enough to download my iPod songs onto my new iPhone (OK, my thirteen year old did if for me)…
COCO – International Dog of Leisure
As posted by on Emma‘s blog on Monday, May 24, 2010 As I put my daughter to bed the other night, she needed cheering up. So I tucked Coco into bed with her and remarked that Coco was an extremely well-travelled little dog indeed. Coco is a black Labrador puppy who came into our lives seven…
Law of the Laundry
Independent review of this post: http://allthingscruise.com/passengers-discover-the-law-of-the-laundry-aboard-the-queen-victoria/ When travelling, no matter how free the spirit or unplanned the journey, there are certain laws that bind us together; the law of averages, the law of the jungle and, of course, Murphy’s law. On board a recent Cunard cruise I discovered there is another law from which no…
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