…Afternoon Tea The Cookery Club Range of Dining Experiences Destination Highlights Saint Maarten Saint Lucia Dominica Grenada If you have a travel query email me Subscribe (and leave a review) to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. Want to support the podcast? Consider becoming a Patron. Find out more at tipsfortravellers.com/patron Listen to this episode……
…board? What should you pack? Any advice on booking and doing excursions? Any other tips for getting most of your P&O Cruise? If you have a travel query email me Subscribe (and leave a review) to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. Want to support the podcast? Consider becoming a Patron. Find out more at tipsfortravellers.com/patron Listen to this episode……
…re is no legal minimum wage, wages are high and often double that of other European countries. So a worker can earn 140 NOK (about £14) an hour. This is double the minimum wage in the UK. At least 250 cruise ships visit this small city every summer season! So they cruise passengers are well catered for. There are docks dotted around around the beautiful bay with room for around 7 cruise ships at any one time. While you can fly in or drive in, it i…
…bean trips – and the area is by far the most popular part of the world for European Cruise lines like Cunard, P&O and Costa to send their ships to during the European winter. Or, in the case of Cunard, in the period running up to the New Year when it tends to be too rough and is too cold for people to book on their famous transatlantic crossings. It fills in the period before they send their ships on their 3 month round the world cruises from Janu…
…hotels do rocket at that time though. (2) GETTING THERE Many of the major European and US airlines fly direct to Sao Paulo with regular schedules. In recent years frequency has increased a lot, for example British Airways used to fly there about 3 or 4 times a week and now flies there at least once a day. One limiting factor though seems to be the Brazilian Air Traffic Control who seems to be fairly inflexible and subject to disputes and delays….
…s probably most famous for being the host city for the headquarters of the European Union and NATO, and known for its waffles (with many side stalls through the city selling them) and chocolates (with many of these shops too). Brussels Christmas Market 2009 (13), originally uploaded by garybembridge. It is very easy to get to Brussels with the Eurostar that runs many times a day from the very beautiful St Pancras Station in North London. It takes…
…t there about 10pm so I took Lufthansa at 5.30. I was also unusually for a European work trip, travelling business as my routing on this trip and lateness of booking threw up an all business ticket (not that I am complaining, though sure our corporate travel will!).I was quite surprised by the Business Lounge they had at Heathrow as it was particularly uninspiring. It is large, as there are a lot of flights, but looked like some sort of grey publi…
…hotels do rocket at that time though. (2) GETTING THERE Many of the major European and US airlines fly direct to Sao Paulo with regular schedules. In recent years frequency has increased a lot, for example British Airways used to fly there about 3 or 4 times a week and now flies there at least once a day. One limiting factor though seems to be the Brazilian Air Traffic Control who seems to be fairly inflexible and subject to disputes and delays….
…more on the culinary delights and the cultural side of Genoa, which was a European City of Culture in 2004. And yet, there is an exciting, vibrant and romantic link to ocean going that still is alive today. Maybe I am too much of a transport and ship geek, but I think this side of Genoa is worth making much more of than they do. Christopher Columbus, who discovered America, originated from Genoa. It was the centre of the Italian transatlantic ser…
…Why the locals say that the islands got heavier, thanks to the cargo-less European trading ships! Across most of the islands houses, fortresses and other buildings are built of stone. Although some of them are now in ruins, you see a great deal of stone buildings in some of the older occupied parts of towns. However, most of these are not built of local stone, but from stones from all around Europe! It seems that the old wooden trading ships that…
…and how when the ship sails from Europe to the United States they use the European produce on the first four days until the Azores and then make sure they only use American sourced produce after that as the ship cannot bring any European produce into the country. Sitting down that evening to enjoy my tuna, soup, steak and torte with 2,000 other people in the glamorous dining room made me appreciate my meal even more than on any previous night. Th…
