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Here we showcase an Article focused on specialty cruises that we feel you will find interesting and informative. These Articles are usually written by a third party who has no vested interest in our website, nor the subject, but who provides a remarkably insightful glimpse at a captivating aspect of specialty cruises.
Articles cover the spectrum of the world of specialty cruises. Far flung destinations. Unusual cruise vessels. Exotic itineraries. Appealing cruise themes. You're guaranteed to always find something here that will capture your interest or imagination.
Cruising the Caledonian Canal
By: Vivien Devlin | February 08, 2010
While not everyone can afford to own a luxury motor boat or yacht, cruising by barge is not only one of the most relaxing and rewarding holidays around, it can also be one of the environmentally “greenest.”
In fact, a barge holiday is estimated to be 20 times better for the planet than spending two hours flying…
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North African cruise: the lure of Libyan lands
By: James Bishop | January 06, 2010
Who now goes to El Alamein? There never was much there, except for a brief but memorable time during the Second World War when the British and Allied forces finally dug in between coast and desert to confront, and finally rout, the German and Italian armies. It was one of the turning points of the war and certainly to…
Serene cuisine on a luxury hotel barge
By: KEITH ELLIS | December 16, 2009
When it was time to join the coach at Montpellier and travel to Anjodi, my hotel barge moored half an hour away on the Canal du Midi at the tiny waterside village of Le Somail. I was tempted to stay behind.
I had arrived in Montpellier on Saturday, the day before embarkation, and decided that I would never leave that…
Into the wide blue yonder
By: Susan Kurosawa From: The Australian | December 05, 2009
IT'S gonna be a bright, bright, bright, sunshiney day. Crew members are singing these merry lyrics as they supervise a curry buffet lunch in the Chart House room and serve trays of Fiji Bitter beer and cocktails with names as radiant as Pacific Dream.
I am aboard the motor vessel Reef Escape for a three-night…
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