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We are off on another exciting adventure; this time it’s an Asian cruise on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth starting in Hong Kong and ending in...

After a relatively uneventful though agonizingly long flight we finally arrived in Hong Kong at around 8PM and made our way to the hotel...

4AM, wide awake – so much for the “sleep of sleeps”! Breakfast in the clubroom – the scarcity of food offerings has continued from the...

This morning could quite possibly be our worst ever hotel club level experience; not only was the food on offer atrocious but the chair I...

Today is the last full day in Hong Kong for us as well Scott and Sean; tomorrow we board the Queen Elizabeth and they fly home. So to...

Checking out of the Langham was always a very cordial and pleasant experience - not so today for our departure from the Cordis....

We’ve only visited China on one previous occasion; a day trip to Shenzhen from Hong Kong – and so we are really looking forward to...

Today we are visiting Busan (formerly Pusan) in South Korean – this is our first visit to this country. I don’t have any preconceived...

Located a days sailing south of the Korean peninsula Jeju (pronounced Zair Zyou) Island is the largest of the Korean islands. A central...

Nagasaki – I’ve been looking forward to this stop ever since we booked the cruise. After the debacle of yesterday we are thankful to be...

Today is our second stop in Japan and we are visiting the city of Kagoshima. The weather has changed dramatically from yesterday; it’s...

Today is our last port of call before we disembark. Yokohama is a huge port about an hour from Tokyo. The most popular thing to do at...

This morning the ship docked in Osaka and this is where we will be disembarking. There was quite a crowd waiting on the dock; hundreds of...

Today was supposed to be brilliant, simple as that – with a half-day guided tour of some of the most amazing historical places in this...

Today we travelled from Kyoto to Tokyo for the final leg of our vacation. Still feeling very shaky, and unable to eat anything, I was...

Today is the first of two full days in Tokyo before we head home on Sunday. We had originally booked an all-day tour to Mount Fuji, but...

Our last day in Tokyo and we’ve got some prep work to do prior to flying home tomorrow. One of our traditions on long haul flights is to...