Journeys Musings from the team of travel writers and photographers of the Global Travel Writers alliance.
Adventure cruising, and its almost seamlessly interchangeable appellation, “expedition cruising”, has its roots deep in the human psyche. It stems from our innate desire to inquire, explore and expand the boundaries of our environment whilst deriving intellectual rewards from the experience. Expanding on this, one could name great navigators like Magellan, Cook, La Perouse and […]
As published in When Australia’s Baby Boomers want to get away from it all, they head to Byron Bay. But they don’t leave their hard-earned integrity, status and comforts behind. Words and pictures by Roderick Eime. Additional photography courtesy the Byron at Byron. “No one lives for the moment anymore,” laments Lyn Parché, manager of […]
Article from: In the skyrocketing cruise market, there’s still room for good old fashioned charm. Roderick Eime lied about his age for a glimpse of retro-cruising, British style. The small crowd watches on with palpable anticipation. Ted stares purposefully toward the small pile of rope rings arrayed on deck and takes his shot. His red […]
Story and photographs by Roderick Eime Beyond the well trafficked sea lanes and cruise ship haunts of Alaska’s Inside Passage lies the true Alaska. Still a wild frontier where, if you stroll in the woods, you take a cut lunch and a .303! “Walk loudly, sing songs, whatever,” says the pimply young ranger at Anan’s […]
Rediscovering AotearoaBay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand New Zealand’s idyllic Bay of Islands is one of the world’s most attractive aquatic playgrounds. How do I know? Well, I’m just back from five nights aboard Coral Princess Cruises’s Oceanic Discoverer where she has completed her short season in the Northland region of New Zealand. The […]
The vibrant and bustling seaport of Hong Kong has enjoyed a prominent part in the grand opera of Asia. Roderick Eime travelled to Hong Kong for a whirlwind tour of the sights, sounds and smells of the former British colony and discovered a bright and brassy city with a long and colourful history
In Shackleton’s Footsteps – One reader follows Shackleton to remotest South Georgia