For fans of Tel’s Travels you will be pleased to know that I fly to Dubai on Monday 27th January 2014 to pick up the Fred Olsen ‘Balmoral’ for the middle two sectors of her current Round the World cruise. I had planned to do the whole cruise but decided that I have done the sector between Southampton to Dubai so many times that I would opt to embark at Dubai and leave at San Diego since again I have done the Panama Canal and Caribbean before. I should be so lucky!!!
This cruise will take me to some new and exciting destinations including Sri Lanka, Miramar (Burma) and if you haven’t seen The Railwaymen with Colin Frith at the cinema then I can recommend it, Singapore and Hong Kong – both maiden visits for me and then Japan and a chance to ride the bullet train from Kobe to Hiroshima and then on to Taiwan before my full maiden crossing of the Pacific to Honolulu, disembarking at San Diego. There is already a full map and Itinerary on the Blog
I’m hoping I have more luck in publishing this Blog onboard than I did when I went to the White Sea last June when my email provider decided the ships IP address was sending spam and so banned my sending any emails!!!
The first part of the voyage is to Muscat and then Mumbai and Cochin so repeating the port I visited last year in March and so I’m only planning limited shore tours for these destinations since nothing is likely to beat the visit to the Taj Mahal that I did then. I am however planning to take an Indian Houseboat cruise when in Cochin.
It will be just great to get away form the constant rain!!
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