Emerging from our cave this morning ( Aroma Suites are traditionally built into the cliff face, which is much nicer than it sounds) we w...

Santorini donkeys. They’re not really donkeys, you know: they’re mostly mules (it's the ears and tails that are the giveaway). Not th...

This morning, with friendly but ruthless efficiency, we were evicted from the Silver Spirit  and cast out into the wide world. After nine ...

Today's cliché moment was randomly exploring a steep narrow pathway back from the waterfront at Patmos, and hearing, invisible on a ...

Marketing gold: that's a direct, overheard, quote from a passenger to another passenger - and, further, from Silversea newbies. It wa...

Excursion envy: it’s a thing. You get the cruise details months and months ahead of the event, read through the itinerary, do your rese...

There are trees on Rhodes. The rock isn’t granite, but limestone (did you know the Greek for limestone is ‘poros’?) so the rain filters t...