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Puerto Madryn is a city in the Patagonia region of Argentina, it was founded in 1865, when 150 Welsh immigrants arriving aboard the...

Just a quick entry…   Sandra must have had a great sleep last night; the seas were quite high, and the ship was moving around quite a bit...

Having successfully navigated the eastern portion of the Beagle Channel, this morning Queen Victoria is docked in the small port town of...

Cape Horn is actually located on a tiny Island called Isla Hornos and this morning at around 6AM Queen Victoria rounded the horn. Having...

We spent yesterday cruising north through more of the beautiful Chilean fjords, with the mainland off the starboard side to the east and...

Having steamed about 20 miles up a narrow fjord throughout the early hours of this morning, the Queen Mary finally approached the Pio XI...

Sir Ian Rankin is a British author famous for writing the Rebus series of crime novels over a 40 year period, several TV series were also...

Having reached about halfway up the immense coast of Chile today we are visiting Puerto Montt, named for the president of Chile in the...

Sandra’s birthday and we are spending it in Valparaiso. With the ship docked in San Antonio it allows tours to Valparaiso or Santiago...

Located about ¾ of the way up the coast of Chile, Coquimbo is a small port town with a small fishing fleet in a sweeping bay – it’s not...

Arica is a small port town right at the very northern edge of Chile, on the border with Peru. In the late 19thcentury Peru won a war with...

Well, here we are finally in “darkest” Peru and there is no sign of Paddington Bear on the dock – hardly a surprise as he was the...

Awoken at around 6:30AM with an announcement, in the cabin, from the bridge trying to locate a demi-chef who had not turned up for work –...

We woke at around 4:30AM to find the ship stationary, close to a port but not berthed. Using my cellphone I discovered that we had...

We’ve spent the last two days steaming north off the coast of Ecuador and Columbia; the weather has been warm with clear skies and the...

Today was our second visit to Oranjestad on the island of Aruba just off the northern coast of Venezuela. We had planned to rent a car...

It’s been 24 years since we last visited Nassau; back in the days when our vacations didn’t involve a ship, we spent 2 weeks in the...

Earlier in the voyage we did not have a good stop in Fort Lauderdale and so today I’m hoping to find something better to than taking the...

Freeport on the Grand Bahama Island is a strange place for a cruise ship stop. Basically the island has no main town, the ship docks in a...

Today the captain announced that we would be arriving at Ponta Delgada in the Azores a day early and staying overnight to leave the next...