30th August 2010Freshly caught sea bream grilled to perfection, washed down with a light local summer white – the ripest of red tomatoes in the salad, dressed by olive oil from Tony the captain”s own olive trees; a perfect start to the holiday sitting on the aft deck of “Linda”, moored alongside other yachts in …
28th August 2010 “We must leave port at 5.30 latest or we cannot leave until tomorrow”, says Alan”s text message. He and the others are already on board our motor sailing gulet, “Linda”. Edmundo and I are stuck in a long queue at the border of Montenegro and Croatia on our way back from visiting …
Phew! Dubrovnik is hot. It teems with so many tourists. It”s like a Disneyland.My room in the little 3-Star Hotel Stari-grad within the walls of the old city is quaint but I didn”t feel that way last night lugging a 26kg suitcase up four flights of steps to my room. Not only for my knees, …
Beijing is charging into the 21st century – it”s hard to believe that on my first visit here in 1985, there was not one single neon light; the traffic jams were with bicycles; and at the one major hotel, you had to line up at breakfast to put a slice of bread through a toaster …
For a small island in the tropics,Singapore never ceases to amaze. The Singapore that was . . . in a small street near my hotel. The Singapore that is . . . with the Sands SkyPark infinity pool floating 200 metres in the sky atop the three soaring Marina Bay Sands Hotel towers. On a …