This page contains recent writing on the site – a bit of a shock, I know – or recent modifications which means you will see both Blog posts (which are summaries of recent updates on the site plus occasional forays off into other subjects) and Travel Portfolio posts (which are the main pieces of travel writing you’ll find on this site, comprising reviews, photos, and travelogues), and you’ll see them in most recently-updated order. This is because I occasionally revisit older posts and rewrite them, and because I occasionally add a new feature to the site and need an easy way to track what’s been changed using the modified date of posts.
So, if you want to see just the newest blog posts in the order in which they were most recently published you can take a look at the Blog page. If you want to see the most recently published travelogue, review, or photo update then the Travel Portfolio will list those. To see content from both categories of website posts but in the order in which I’ve most recently made a change then this is the page for you.
A page that has to explain its purpose is probably something serious website owners frown upon, but fortunately I’m not one of them. And I’m fully aware that nobody cares enough to browse a site these days, making a page like this mostly pointless, and that it’s all about the instant gratification from clicks, but, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, this site is for me and my memories mainly. And I like to tinker with things so this was fun to do as well.
Ambassador Cruise Ship Ambience: Northern Lights Cruise ReviewApril 8th, 2025 An overview about our recent and first ever cruise with Ambassador aboard Ambience up to the top of Norway, covering the ship and its issues plus the places we visited. Blog.
Travel AchievementsOctober 27th, 2017 This blog post lists some of the highlights of places to which we've travelled or of experiences in those places. We understand that everyone is different and that some people like beach holidays or going back to the same hotel every year but for us the joy of travelling is in seeing something that our friends and family haven't, of building up a list of experiential achievements, giving us something to look back at in years to come and say that yes, we did that, we saw that, we were there.
Celebrity Silhouette Second ChanceMarch 12th, 2025 Boarding and first day at sea on the cruise ship, Celebrity Silhouette, with a look at the food and how the first night's drinking curtailed the second day's activities on the ship.
Alaska Cruise CompletedMarch 10th, 2025 Links to the most recent cruise travelogues which complete a cruise to Alaska on Holland America Line, plus a few older travelogue posts to complete a Welsh getaway back in 2011. Blog.
Vancouver Cruise Debark TourMarch 9th, 2025 Some photos from a debark tour taken at the end of an Alaskan cruise that started and ended in the Canadian city of Vancouver.
An Unwelcoming Stay In TremadogMarch 6th, 2025 A handful of photos and some details of the part of our 2011 short break in Wales that included some decidedly unwelcoming locals.
