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MAURITIUS: The magical, beautiful Indian Ocean Island

airports / Attraction review / Mauritius / travel

MAURITIUS: The magical, beautiful Indian Ocean Island

…they kept a lot of in fact even the Napoleonic Code, the legal system. The British then controlled Mauritius right up until 1968, when Mauritius became independent. After the end of slavery, and when the African slaves were freed, the wealthy sugar barons looked towards India for work forces. They started to bring a lot of Indian people in to the island, so the whole balance of the population shifted toward Indian, and later toward Chinese. As a r…

Cruise Ship / Cunard / transportation

Cunard Line History: 10 Key Events That Define This Iconic Cruise Line

…any others. Carnival are focused on building the Cunard brand based on its British heritage and luxury image. In 2004 they added the Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship at the time, designed as a liner that could take over the Transatlantic business from the QE2. Later they added the Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth. Cunard focuses on reinforcing and building an image of luxury linked to the “golden days” of cruise liner travel that harks b…

travel blog

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Gary Bembridge And My Travels & Blog

…Bulawayo Zimbabwe (called Rhodesia at the time) of British Parents. I am a British Citizen which is really important as meant I have been able to live in Europe, and travel so much easier than if was not! I did 18 months military service in Zimbabwe after school, where I was a weapons instructor training people to use Browning machine guns, pistols and shotguns. I left Zimbabwe in 1982 after military service to go to university. ⁃ As a boy growing…

Cruise Ship / MSC / MSC Preziosa / transportation

Cruise Ship Jobs: Exclusive Interview About Designing the MSC Preziosa On-Board Experience

…perience” to life, and how they do something different to the American and British cruise lines that I am most familiar with. Like many cruisers, I am seeing a more harmonised cruise offering and experience across the American and British cruise brands, no doubt driven by the fact that 2 large corporations (Carnival and Royal Caribbean) own most cruise lines across the world today. MSC Cruises is the only cruise line with a ship-within-ship concep…

travel podcast

Travel tips 152: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

…ians sent to work on Burma railway building (death railroad). Post the war British ruled until independence in 1957. Best time to go Pretty much anytime as always constant between 20 and 30C – no rainy season as such but gets lots of rain and flooding. Getting there Good come connections by air and cruise ships dock in Port Kelang at Star Cruise terminal about 1,5 hour drive to KL Getting around Traffic is terrible and very congested – not very pr…

canada / Rocky Mountaineer

Rocky Mountaineer First Passage to the West – Live!

…five distinctive rail routes, rich in history and natural wonders, through British Columbia and Alberta. This world-renowned, luxurious train travels by daylight through the wild beauty of Canada’s West and is the best way to experience the majestic Canadian Rockies, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the past 25 years, Rocky Mountaineer has grown to become the largest privately owned luxury tourist train company in the world and has welcomed over…

Britannia

P&O Cruises Britannia Caribbean Cruise Highlights and Must-dos

…s region was definitely one. The guests and experience were unquestionably British. The production shows celebrated icons from the Beatles to Adele, guest entertainers drawn from “Strictly Come Dancing” backing singers to Zoe Tyler from London’s West End and “Loose Women”, quizzes tested knowledge on all things from home, the sterling was the on-board currency, the channels on the in-room television were household regulars, classic favourite dishe…

Panama Canal

Cunard

Cunard World Cruise Week 3 Highlights (Aruba to Guatemala via Panama Canal)

…. There were 38 less passengers in total. Of the 1,811 on board 1,188 were British, 297 Americans, 84 Germans, 66 Australians and 65 Canadians. There were 25 nationalities in total. Cunard Entertainment and Hotel Managers that I have interviewed in the past had told me that Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth tend to be British traveller dominated, while the Queen Mary 2 due to the Transatlantic Crossings is more multi-cultural. This seemed true on…

Tips for Travellers

Holiday Reading. What’s Your Preference?

…for the plane trip there. The removal of roaming charges across Europe for British travellers may start to change habits, as it is now possible to download and add books to an eBook within our local mobile data package. It does mean that is the books taken prove to be a bit dull, or they get finished, it is cheaper and easier to buy and download them on a European vacation. Already Opodo has found that 14% of British holidaymakers are more likely…

Cruise Ship

Best Family Cruises And Cruise Line Tips

…and they have more family cabins, they have good kids’ clubs. It’s a very British experience, so if you want to go on a British family holiday then take a look at P&O Cruises. P&O Cruises also operates out of Australia and again they have a much more Australian experience. Hapag Lloyd Cruises If you do want to travel ultra-luxury and you want to travel with kids, the one cruise line to take a look at is Hapag Lloyd cruises. They are an expensive…

Cruise Update

Latest Cruise News Update #26 – Carnival, Cancellations, Test Cruises And More

…r. In Europe this includes 4 key regions: Mediterranean, Norwegian Fjords, British Isles and Baltics. German and Italian lines are already sailing Italian, Greek and Canary island itineraries, although on pause due to European lockdowns. CLIA is pushing to get the UK-based lines, and those that home port in the UK, sailing UK-based itineraries which (as I reported in the last update) the UK government appears to be moving towards. Test Cruises Upd…