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On Saturday 17 June 2017 Carmel and I set sail on the Regent Seven Seas Navigator for a trip through the Panama Canal and Central America. The itinerary was as follows: Sat 17 June Leave Miami Sun 18 June 18 At Sea Mon 19 June Georgetown Cayman Islands Tue 20 June At Sea Wed 21 […]

Vive la difference Carmel Stewart The big difference between the independent traveller and the experienced cruiser is that the former holds on tight to their possessions, their paperwork and their passports, come what may. Experienced cruisers are altogether gentler, more trusting souls. The boss man says hand over your passport at the beginning of the

In November 2014 I finally got to do the walk to Everest Base Camp. After a false start in 2013 where Carmel and I went to Nepal to do the Everest Base Camp walk but ended up being defeated by the weather and not able to fly into Lukla we ended up doing a trek

All aboard (Part 2) By Carmel Stewart Being by ourselves meant we could chart our own course. Brian had talked through possible routes with Max so he had an idea of what we could expect. The unusual thing about this trip was ready access to charts. I have sailed with Brian before and he likes

All aboard (Part 1) By Carmel Stewart LIFE on the ocean waves is probably great fun if you like your own company and love the water. Personally, I quite like my family and friends, suffer from seasickness and am a hopeless, almost suicidally inadequate, swimmer. But I do love to sail albeit for a few

I was having a chat today with a couple of friends of mine who are about to head off overseas for a few weeks. They are going to Greece and Turkey and I asked if they had registered themselves on the Smart Traveller website, http://smartraveller.gov.au They hadn’t heard of the site and suggested I put

As I mentioned in my blog post last week I was in Singapore. One of the things I like to do when I am traveling is find good places to jog/walk so I can exercise outside rather than in a hotel gym. One of the places I came across in Singapore was the East Coast

I am currently in Singapore coaching at UIBC 13. I have been here a few days but haven’t yet done any sightseeing. I found a good video on the sights of Singapore so have included it here.

In the last year or so I have been traveling back and forth from Los Angeles to Australia for business. While in Los Angeles I have been staying at hotels near the airport going to meetings in that general area and then going home. While in Los Angeles in September last year I came across

  In December I spent 7 days on Lady Elliott Island at the southern most tip of the Great Barrier Reef. I chose this island to visit because I was going with a friend who had never been to the reef, who wanted to learn how to snorkel but had a significant problem with sea