jane and ashley go awol

We have now got over our jet lag and have had time to reflect on our nine weeks away.  We disagree about Egypt, but agree that there is more...

We arrived safely at Heathrow at 04:30 today, following a 12 hour flight from Hong Kong.  Guy met us and kindly brought us home to Dorset.  ...

Arrived here about one hour ago after a successsful second attempt at a landing.  Taking off again at 23:30 HK time, seven hours ahead of UK...

12:00 Monday 12th March:  In 20 minutes time we will check in for our flight to UK.  Have eventually found a free wifi that works.  Looking ...

We went to the Opera House today to see Mozart's 'Cosi Fan Tutte', roughly translated as "So do all women", a slightly...

Now we are in a hotel in Darling Harbour, we are able to upload more photos.  Hope that this helps your enjoyment of our blog. 

11:00 Saturday 10 th March.   Got up at 05:00 to see Arcadia’s journey into Sydney harbour past the Opera House and Bridge.    It was on...

    Wednesday 7th March 13:10   Have found a free wifi area at the Loan Pine Koala Sanctuary but does not work for our laptop, so no...

13:20: Tuesday 6th March.  We anchored outside Yorkeys Knob on Monday morning and took a catamaran as a tender to the shore.   We jumped in...

23:59 Sunday 4 th March:   Last night moved through the Gulf of Carpentaria and spotted a wonderful sunset.   Today another visit to the o...

15:30 Saturday 3 rd  March:   Another unexpected jewel, Papua New Guinea.   We were warned that it was a fourth world country and that Rabou...

17:30   Thursday 1st March.  During a long time cruising at sea in quite uninhabited areas, a ship and all the people on it can be vulnerab...

23:00 Tuesday 28 th February.   This morning the ship had to alter course towards Guam in order to enable a US coastguard helicopter to tak...

14:00  Although this post states Sunday we are actually Monday 27th February, so the time scale has become a bit muddled.  Sailing at 23.9 k...

17:00 – Sorry, no post again last night as we were, for the second time, in a Japanese port, where use of the internet is banned!   So much...

17:30 (9 hours ahead of UK)   Sorry that yesterday, 23rd February, we couldn’t communicate again.   This time it was the fault of the Japane...

18: 30  China Day 1 : We left the ship at about 09:30 on Sunday 19 th February for a swift panoramic view of Shanghai, passing through t...

Over the last few days, we have been on an overland trip to China.   We tried to write our blog but realised that the Peoples’ Republic of C...

19:30   Another day at sea, again rough but not anything to cause stomach problems!   We should leave Shanghai tomorrow on our overland to s...

Force 7-8 winds with rough seas – the roughest yet as we sail past Taiwan into the East China Sea on the way to Shanghai.    All outside dec...