Before I get into the marvels of Venice, and Venice is marvelous, I want to offer a caution to anyone considering getting there by cruise...

Imagine for a moment that there is a real life, human version of Hobbiton, where the houses are above ground and are constructed of...

It’s all Greek to me, at least it is today. Greetings from Corfu, a popular Greek tourist destination in the Ionian Sea. The island of...

Greetings from Gibraltar. Unless I’m mistaken The Rock may be the first place we’ve been on this trip where we can see three countries...

Yesterday we had a great time exploring the old city in Santa Cruz, the capital of Tenerife, and for once there was no bus ride involved,...

Hola, and greetings from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, one of the two capitals of the Canary Islands, the small, autonomously governed Spanish...

Greetings from the Sahel, and bonus points if you know that the Sahel is the semi-arid transition zone between the parched Sahara desert...

This has been a hard post to write. Imagine that you’re a prisoner in a dungeon the size of an average bedroom. Stone floors, walls and...

Greetings from Luanda, Angola. We’re now in a nation where cruise ships seldom call and only the hardiest tourists consider when planning...

Today we began a segment of our world cruise that has the potential to be truly memorable. Africa’s west coast is so ignored by the...

Cape Town was the third of our three ports of call in South Africa, and today’s excursion put an exclamation point on a great visit to...

There are shore excursions that can be categorized as true adventures, and yesterday’s was definitely one of those as we had close...

Greetings from the African mainland! Five months and fourteen days into our big adventure we’re finally in South Africa proper, and more...

Greetings from the Indian Ocean. After two long and tiring days in Mauritius we had a shorter and easier time of it today on nearby...

Mark Twain wrote, “You gather the idea that Mauritius was made first and then Heaven, and that Heaven was copied after Mauritius.”...

So the tour description said, “immerse yourself in the breathtaking beauty of Mauritius with an invigorating hike through its lush...

Greetings from Africa. Well, sort of, anyway. We’re in Seychelles, an independent nation consisting of 115 small islands scattered across...

Greetings from Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). With a population of more than 3.5 million, this sprawling...

Well, before this cruise I never thought I’d find myself in the Persian Gulf, with the nearest land being the Islamic Republic of Iran,...

Our second day in Mumbai, and the last of seven consecutive days of excursions in Sri Lanka and India, and it provided yet another...