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Well the chaps and I have had a terrific week sailing on the water. I don't think I've laughed so much for years. As the week progressed our behaviour became increasingly juvenile but we managed to survive and I got…

I'm starting to regret using the pavlova joke before I'd experienced Fiji Airways. I will go out of my way to avoid them in future. Since I am geographically removed from most of their route network this should not pose…

It seems like only a few months since I was last here! We sailed into Melbourne and docked in an area near to St Kilda which is a coastal area about 30 minutes from the centre of the city. Australian…

The storm we were due to pass through was avoided in large part because the captain took a detour. We ended up with 10ft swells instead of 15ft but they still put the sick bags out at every lift shaft.…

Our first stop in New Zealand was at Waitangi which in on the north island in an area called the Bay of Islands. Cruise Director Gene (from Provo Utah) urged us all to get up at 5:30 for the sail-in…

We had four days at sea between the Cook Islands and our first of three stops in New Zealand. Some of the ship characters Tanned Jeff lives on the ship for 7 months of the year and this is his…

Dear all or Kia orana as they say in Rarotonga, Drama this morning as we stopped in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. It is notorious as a "missed port" due to the sea swells and this morning was no exception.…

We arrived in Tahiti in the early hours and from quite a distance away the shadowy outline of the hills and peaks was quite breathtaking. Tahiti is the main island of French Polynesia and is a sprawling metropolis compared to…

Nuku Hiva is the second largest island in French Polynesia (Tahiti is the largest) and has a population of a whopping 3,000 most of whom are the size of a small family hatchback. French Polynesia is split into several island…