aven’t a clue what day it is!” Oh what a feeling! The sound of cutting through calm seas is soothing whether propped up on two soft pillows in the cabin or stretched out on a towel with a book reclining in the shade on deck. And, a pot of tea or a cool drink is …
s soon as the Ghana authorities have cleared the vessel in the port of Takoradi, the very notion of women dressed in African costumes, with bowls of fruit or fish on their heads has me on the first shuttle bus from the ship into town with camera at the ready. I have this vision of …
A day of dramatic peaks, valleys and volcano, ending up with fresh fish right from the fishermen’s boats that come in through the surf to sell their catch on the sand outside the restaurant for lunch. View Photos – CLICK HERE.
ere at the Salobre Sheraton Resort on Gran Canaria, a man-made green golf spot in what appears to be a barren volcanic landscape, where the only plant life seems to be Canary Island palms – surprising? And in this notoriously dry Spanish island in the Atlantic, it has to be bucketing down rain when we …
Click here to view photos. About an hour’s drive from Milan this 15th century Monastery that used to house a cloistered monastic order of Carthusian monks rises from the fog to greet us in the early morning. We are in time for Mass in one of the smaller decorated chapels. Later a monk from Eritrea …