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Cruise on Holland America’s Oosterdam

Cruise on Holland America’s Oosterdam

We chose to cruise the Mediterranean as a way to totally unwind and relax after a particularly busy work year and having cruised on several occasions previously wanted to try Holland America (HAL) as we understood that they offered the ‘old style’ type of cruising without the climbing walls, waterslides etc offered by other cruise [...]

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Dubai – Sun, Shopping, Sea, Ski & Storms

Dubai – Sun, Shopping, Sea, Ski & Storms

We took our holidays in Dubai back in early December 2008 and on our first day were not greeted by glorious sunshine as expected, but by an electric storm with torrential rain and magnificent fork lighting, and then by the most enormous hail stones.  Hail is a weather phenomenon which has not happened for 17 [...]

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