741775 steps 16 car journeys (someone else driving) 6855 photographs 5 flights 4 cruises 1 funicular 8 train trips 1 catamaran 30 bus journeys 1 cable car 21 boat rides 1 boat that sank 599.91km walked 0 items accidentally left behind and lost 9 currencies brought back 2 items damaged beyond recovery 2 items damaged […]

The flight started badly, overhead luggage locker tetris. Decades of computer gaming pay off and I get my bag and jackets in. An hour into the flight the guy in front leans his seat back. I end up with a screen a hand span from my face, far too close, no way of avoiding it. […]

Sat behind a woman getting sms messages for the first time in a couple of days. On her screen, “He lost his first tooth on Friday!” Her reply started with OMG which made me smile. You don’t expect 65 year old women to type that. She didn’t. She kept going: OMGoodness. I found that even […]

Now that it’s too late to panic my mother, I can reveal that I’ve been to four of the world’s ten most dangerous cruise ports on this trip. As a re-reading of my travelogue will show, I also went wandering well off the tourist tracks in more than one of them. Never had an issue, […]

My last ‘sea day’ of the trip, so I’ve splashed out on internet access. Mainly to watch the cricket, although I’ve also just opened 105 web pages from just one work related news site. That’s just two weeks worth of updates too. Plans for the day were to keep up with the cricket score (looks […]