Progressing around dinner, around the ship, around the world

Oh Lordy! Each night they keep surpassing the last. The progressive dinner. Amazing. Unexpected. Extraordinary. We started in The Den with cocktails and canapés. Then we moved onto the Cabaret Lounge. Some more cocktails with a little amuse-bouche to keep us going…And some African dancing. Then onto a behind-the-scenes tour of the ship’s kitchens. There […]

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Ghost ship

Only 60 of us left on board our own personal cruise ship. We’re tacking round the Cape of Good Hope. The rest of the mob had left the ship at Mauritius and Port Elizabeth, allegedly going on “safari” but … oh dear delicate readers prepare yourselves to face sordid reality … there was an overabundance […]

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Swakopmund Museum

Now the museum in Swakopmund ( Namibia) is OUR kind of museum. Choc-à-bloc with a disparate and engaging collection of stuffed animals, dioramas, and weird and wonderful exhibits. A bag of delicious mixed lollies and a heady dose of nostalgia. The fine old art of Museology seems to be thriving still in Africa and the […]

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Pavilion Hotel Phnom penh

In Phnom Penh did the Queen Mother A stately pleasure dome decree:Where Mekong, the sacred river, ran Through deltas measureless to man Down to the China sea. The ancient city of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, is like a lovely child swinging playfully on the hip of her beautiful Mother, the Mekong River. Reborn from […]

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A date with Wresley

We’re not sure if Elvis ever visited Goa, but suspect he may have. Wresly (Guest Relations Manager) hails from Goa, one of our favourite places. He invited Bill, myself and Toni to break bread with him at Discoveries restaurant. He urged us on to order more than usual and plied us with a delicious Chenin […]

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Dislocated Recipes for Success: Small, crunchy, crispy, fried Mauritian thingies

At Eureka, (St Louis, Mauritius), the perfectly preserved Creole mansion built in the 1830s we were served these small, crunchy, crispy delicious thingies and had to find the recipes. Our Scotian buddy Barb had expressed interest in the details of Mauritian Tucker so here it is. Mauritian gâteaux piments Ingredients • 500 g split peas • […]

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Liberace’s Protegé

In the finest traditions of show business reality and fantasy collide like tectonic plates and collude, always startlingly on this ship of dreams, the Azamara Onward, showering out sparks of outrageously unlikely connections, associations and degrees of separation. Onward we sail, now in the Bay of Guinea, wondering whether, just over the horizon, thundering herds […]

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Mauritius

We swirled through Mauritius in a blaze of colourful skirts, French accented patois, oh-la, vegetable samosas, Tamil temples and even stops at colourful sausage shops. The furthest East African country, sitting prettily in the Indian Ocean, south of the Seychelles and East of Madagascar. The Sun rose on dotted island outposts. We were tugged into […]

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