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Last week, our friend and colleague Eleni Skarveli, the director of the Greek National Tourism Office, announced that Greece was going to suspend taking the biometrics of all British passport [...]

Well, that’s the end of our cruise experiences for this year, rounding off the year in style with Jackie’s mini-cruise with Crystal Cruises, and Ashley’s ship visit on [...]

Last year, I sampled Ambassador Cruise Line for the first time, with a repositioning sector between Dundee and Tilbury via Newcastle onboard their smaller ship, Ambition. You can read about my [...]

In last week’s edition, I talked about the history and relaunch of the Crystal Cruises brand back into the luxury cruise market. This week, I describe my recent experience. I’ll take you through [...]

The final port on my short Explora Journeys mini-cruise up the Adriatic was somewhere I have wanted to go for a while. The Croatian port of Rovinj in Istria, the most northern region of Croatia, [...]

The starting point for my Explora Journeys cruise was the southern Italian port city of Bari. As one of two major entry points to the Puglia region (along with Brindisi), Bari is somewhat [...]

Last week, I spent a few days onboard a new ‘cruise line’ for us, Explora Journeys, on a ‘journey’ from Bari in Puglia to Venice. Born from the heritage of the MSC Group, and that shouldn’t be [...]

Last week, I was one of a select group of travel agents who were invited onboard SeaDream’s Sea Dream 2 whilst it was docked in London for a few days. For those who don’t know about [...]

During the summer months, several different cruise lines sail our waters on around the UK (and or Scotland) cruises, from the larger lines like Princess Cruises, upmarket lines like Silversea and [...]

Once again, this was the second part of ‘The Ultimate Ship Visit’ in association with Inspiring Travel and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. This was the visit to see their [...]