The World-famous wreck of the Thistlegorm THE WRECK OF THE THISTLEGORM In the golf of Suez, the Thistlegorm lies on a sandy bottom at 30 metres. This armed cargo ship (415 feet long) is fill with military equipment for the British troops based in Africa. She was bombed by the German...

Had to have one photo of the Grand Canal!

A very comfortable hotel on the Canal Foscari Palace is a few steps from the Ca' D'Oro water bus stop, a short walk from Rialto Bridge. The rooftop terrace offers a view across Venice.

'Many a time and oft ...' The Rialto Bridge is the most famous of the bridges that cross the Grand Canal (the other two are the Accademia Bridge and the Scalzi).

The Basilica of St Mary of Health (Italian: Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It stands on a narrow finger of land between the Grand Canal and...

Madeira. A Levada winding through a village.

Just Puerto Mogan

Several of my favourite buildings here and a quick trip across La Laguna from the Grande Canale.

The town where I was born and bred, I left many years ago, but will always be a Lancashire lass, at heart

Veendam Chief Officer Jochem Bakker has made another time-lapse video of the ship transiting the Panama Canal. He managed to tape the entire transit, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, which takes most of a day in real time.