Highlights of Travel to the Middle East
Several months ago we did a cruise along the Norwegian fjords and up to Svalbard. On that cruise, one of the waiters was from Madagascar. We asked him tonnes of questions and our desire to visit Madagascar began to grow. Getting there is expensive though; especially as we started to look at flights to island hop including Seychelles, Reunion and Mauritius. These are...
Good morning from Aqaba, Jordan. Down at the south end of Jordan, Aqaba is a port town on the Red Sea. We are very close to Eilat, Israel and in fact directly across the bay is Israel. To the south about 26 kilometers is Saudi Arabia. This may be the closest we ever get to Saudi Arabia as they are not open to tourists… not at this point in time anyway. Maybe at some...
End of the Five Star Living on the High Seas We are now in Athens, Greece. We have spent the last three weeks living on the MS Rotterdam and allowing the Holland America crew to pamper us and fatten us up quite frankly. We had a great trip and met some amazing people. I guess after spending three weeks with the same people, following the same schedules, eating the...
Arabian Nights… and Days From Kenya we were looking at flights to Morocco. All reasonably priced flights either went through Doha (Qatar) or Dubai (United Arab Emirates). So, we booked ourselves a six night stopover in Dubai at no extra cost… to stop there that is. You can actually book four and five star hotels at a decent price in Dubai. We used Hotwire...