Janette Frawley
'Every traveller and historian agreed: the bravery of the people and the beauty of the island'
It is our last full day at sea and our first taste of Greece as the ship pulls into Heraklion port on the island of Crete. I'm looking...
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THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
A road journey from LOS ANGELES to CARMEL
DECEMBER 27, 2012 - JANUARY 3, 2013
THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
A road journey from LOS ANGELES to CARMEL
DECEMBER 27, 2012 - JANUARY 3, 2013
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Janette Frawley
Jun 2, 20232 min read
'Parting the desert: the creation of the Suez Canal' - Zachary Karabell
We had been anchored overnight; the Captain will be advised some time after 4am when he can start the transit through the Suez Canal. I...
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Janette Frawley
Jun 1, 20235 min read
'After a day's walk, everything has twice its usual value' - G M Trevelyan
Imagine stepping off a bus and right into the pages of a storybook! That is exactly what we did, except that the book wasn’t a fairy...
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Janette Frawley
May 28, 20238 min read
'A rose red city half as old as time' - Dean Burgen
We arrive in Aqaba, Jordan in the early morning and before long we are permitted to leave the ship. We quickly find our bus and the seats...
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Janette Frawley
May 27, 20233 min read
'A beautiful thing is never perfect' - Egyptian proverb
Our day is not yet over.... We haven't got to the big stuff yet. We leave the restaurant and drive through the streets, passing the...
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Janette Frawley
May 26, 20235 min read
'The sun always shines after the storm' - Tutankhamun
After a three-and-a-half hour bus ride from Safaga, there is an air of excitement within the bus as each of the passengers look forward...
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Janette Frawley
May 26, 20234 min read
'The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes.' - Paulo Coelho
From the ship, I see a mountain range just behind the port town of Safaga and before long we are on our bus and driving towards them....
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Janette Frawley
May 19, 20233 min read
'Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.' - Van Morrison
It’s hard to comprehend being on a ship at sea for seven straight days without stopping. From Cochin, India, we need to cross the Arabian...
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Janette Frawley
May 18, 20235 min read
'Make no mistake, the weeds will win; nature bats last' - Robert Michael Pyle
The sun is rising as we approach Cochin; an eerie orangie-grey light is cast over the shimmering water as we approach the harbour. We are...
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Janette Frawley
May 15, 20235 min read
'Who are you if nobody knows your story?' - Thisuri Wanniarachchi,
We watch our ship pull into the Colombo’s ancient natural harbour and wait somewhat impatiently for the bureaucracy to unfold. All the...
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Janette Frawley
May 13, 20237 min read
'In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks' - John Muir
After three days at sea, we are eager to disembark and explore the Yala National Park, situated near enough to the newish port of...
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Janette Frawley
May 8, 20233 min read
I Should be so Lucky'
No stopover in Singapore is complete without a visit to the forty-year-old Lucky Plaza shopping centre right in the heart of Orchard...
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Janette Frawley
May 5, 20233 min read
'We've built a nation with our hands'
Singapore, located at the southern tip of Malaysia, after a rich maritime history became an independent sovereign country in 1965....
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Janette Frawley
May 3, 20232 min read
Leaving on a Jet Plane
My dad caught the travel bug early in life. He first left home to work on a dairy farm in Gippsland when he was thirteen years old, which...
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