Before the trip started Sterlin was checked over by Philippe our local Land Rover mechanic. Philippe had competed all of our major repairs and we certainly trust him with Sterlin. Before we set off, he wanted to have one final…
Thursday, November 27, 2014 During the morning we sailed up the Saigon River, which was a little surreal. The river is big, but it feels a lot smaller when sailing in a cruise ship. By lunchtime we arrived on Ho…
Monday, November 24, 2014 We stopped in Nha Trang for a day and did a little window shopping and a lovely walk around town. The plan was to walk along the beach to the Po Nagar Cham Towers, but the heat…
Friday, November 21, 2014 The World left Ha Long Bay at 8pm on November 20th and docked in Chan May around 6pm the following day. The ship was docked miles form anything so that evening we did not go ashore.…
November, 2014 On November 9th we said goodbye to Europe (at least for this trip) and flew to Hong Kong where we boarded M/V The World. This part of our trip will saw us in Hong Kong for 5 days,…
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Around noon we reached Ha Long Bay, our entry point into Vietnam. The bay features some 2000 of limestone karst islets and islands in all shapes and sizes, which makes for stunning scenery. In 1994 the…
Sunday, November 16, 2014 After a day at sea and on route from Hong Kong to Vietnam, we docked for 2 days at Sanya, Hainan Island, China. Not much to this place really. It’s being marketed as the ‘Hawaii of China’, because…
Monday, November 10, 2014 After a long, tiring flight (these long hauls usually are) on Qatar Airlines from Brussels, via Doha – somehow we’d expected more of that airline… will have to try Emirates next – we arrived in Hong…
Wednesday to Friday, November 5 – 7, 2014 Caroline took the 12:58pm Eurostar from London St Pancras to Brussel Zuid (naturally there was a 25 minute delay entering the tunnel), and from there continued onto Gent to stay 2 days…
Sunday to Thursday, November 2 – 6, 2014 Stephen flew back to San Francisco to organize a few things. Uneventful trip, which is the best kind. Caroline stayed back in Europe.
Friday, October 31, 2014 We have flown into London many times, but this was the first time we flew into London City Airport – which was rather spectacular with The Shard and Canary Wharf passing just beneath us – and…
Thursday, October 30, 2014 We left Eeklo mid-morning towards Rottterdam to drop off our faithful ‘travel companion/vehicle’. We took it easy, stopping for lunch and coffee close to Veere. Sterlin’s drop-off address turned out to be in the middle of…
Friday, October 24, 2014 We drove from Luxemburg City to Eeklo by way of Bastogne, where we visited the Bastogne War Museum; another very well done museum, very worthy of a visit; and the American Memorial / Mardasson Memorial. We spent…
Thursday, October 23, 2014 We arrived in the late afternoon into Luxembourg. Our little hotel was smack bang in the middle of the local Red Light district, which made parking Sterlin a little challenging, but we found a safe enough…
August – October, 2014 Back in Europe we made our way to Belgium via Russia, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. On August 16 we arrived in Eeklo, the end-goal of the ‘overland’ part of our trip.…
