Month: April 2025

We pull into Keelung City with views over the huge cargo operation here. It’s our first balcony breakfast too.  As you’ll know […]

We always say every day cannot get better – if it did the previous ones would depreciate in value, and by the […]

Naha is the capital of Okinawa, one of the more southerly islands of the Japanese chain. It has a population of only […]

Sea days are wonderful when the weather is good, but rather less attractive if it’s inclement. After two dull and bouncy sea […]

Our fifth sea-day out of seven, and the second in a row. Since we left Yokohama we will have travelled around 500 […]

Over night we ran into some very bumpy water, swells around 4m so not horrendous but enough to be aware. And enough […]

After two weeks we’re back in Yokohama for a day, and then in two more weeks we return to get off the […]

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to deduce the primary employer in Hitachinaka! This conurbation of several cities has numerous factories mostly […]

Today is a pea-souper! Not in the Dutch traditional Erwtensoep that Holland America used to offer – the bowls of wonderful thick […]

Our second day in Hokkaido is our most Northerly port, and it certainly feels like it. There is lots of snow around, […]