The country of Namibia was one place I never expected to visit, thus, it was with some anticipation I disembarked at the port city of Walvis Bay a few days…
Life and time are incredible. Today 2 years ago I had just lost my breasts, my hair, and was deep in the throe of chemotherapy. I was shackled by Covid,…
Since our itinerary was changed to now include a visit to Africa, there was one thing we had to do.. Go on safari. And while it was a bugger to…
It's taken seven straight days of traversing a strangely calm Indian Ocean to reach Mauritius, the 3rd of our 13 ports of call on this half world crossing. First, these…
Change Of Plans
Initial Cruise Itinerary
New Cruise Itinerary
I learnt years ago to keep an open mind when travelling, and this new adventure proves the case. Six weeks ago we were…
Darma Travels Makeover
It’s been just over two years since my last post but I haven’t been idle. Shortly after that last blog I was diagnosed with breast cancer.…
Who would have thought that 20 days after arriving home from our 'Global Adventure', a pandemic would be called and, 18 months later, we would still be grounded!
Carpe Diem
Without…
A highlight of this adventure was always going to be sailing into Sydney Harbour and viewing our country through the eyes of foreigners and I am happy to report that…
No doubt inspired by my numerous visits to this country as a child, I have long considered New Zealand, Australia’s poorer, less sophisticated neighbour. Well, I got that wrong, didn’t…
Its taken five days to traverse the 2365 nautical miles between Honolulu and Papeete, Tahiti. And as we tipped over the equator, back into the Southern Hemisphere, the days became…
The clocks went back again last night, we are now 19 hours behind Australia. This means that when we awoke this morning – January 26th, 2020, the time at home…
You know that dusty bottle of liqueur, full of blue liquid with a name you cannot pronounce that’s usually pushed right to the back of your cupboard/bar? Well, we went…
This morning, the tenth time since departing on our journey we put our clocks back another hour. This means that we are now fifteen hours behind Australia. To catch up,…
Whilst it was quite sad saying farewell to England knowing that we were about to commence our journey home - the fun of boarding Arcadia once again did offer some…
We have just spent the past six days first in Rome then in Verona, Italy and seriously we are still reeling from all that we have seen. Rome, in particular,…