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This morning the Queen Victoria sailed into Tauranga; it was quite a tricky approach as the ship had to navigate between a small...

Having sailed south from Auckland to Tauranga yesterday, the Queen Victoria headed north again, passed Auckland and on up to arrive at...

Over the past 2 days we’ve steamed across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia and this morning we arrived at Sydney. We were up...

It’s a bit overcast today with rain forecast on and off all day; our plan is to take a walk through Sydney, making our way up to Hyde...

Over the past two days the Queen Victoria has steamed north from Sydney, the weather has become progressive warmer and more humid with...

We’ve had three sea days since leaving Cairns last Sunday and during that time we’ve rounded the very top of Australia and turned west...

We’ve now begun to head northwest toward Indonesia and the weather remains very hot and very humid, the seas a very calm. A new crop of...

Wow I never thought we’d ever visit Bali, it just sounds so exotic and far off – conjuring images of pointy mountains, beautiful white...

Yesterday we sailed between the islands of Borneo in the north and Java in the south, heading mostly west. The weather was getting...

Today we crossed the equator back into the northern hemisphere and we attended the onboard ceremony that has been a maritime tradition...

Yesterday we steamed through the Singapore Straits, catching site of the Queen Elizabeth docked near the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, before...

This afternoon the captain announced that due to unsafe tendering conditions in Langkawi our schedule visit on Sunday March 19th has been...

When the change to the world voyage itinerary was first announced, and I saw that it now included a stop in Penang, my first reaction was...

We’ve visited Singapore several times before; it was a necessary stop on my way to work in Penang – we’d always enjoyed our visits and so...

More shopping and mall browsing, including the famous British chain of Marks and Spencer’s – they have several locations across...

Today we had lunch at Raffles Hotel – the hotel began as a simple 10 room seaside bungalow in 1887, opened by the Sarkie Brothers, the...

We’ve had a very relaxing 8 sea days from Singapore to Abu Dhabi; our worst fears were unfounded – we did not go insane. The seas have...

During the night the ship slowly cruised up the coast about 100 miles to Dubai and we were up early this morning to watch the sail in....

We opted for an easy day today and took the ships’ shuttle bus to the Mall of the Emirates, the second megamall in Dubai. At a nice...

Over the past 2 days the Queen Victoria has steamed back through the Straits of Hormuz before turning south-west to parallel the coast of...