by Clare Flynn | Aug 10, 2020
What a magical place is Bora Bora. The volcanic island (extinct!) has no harbour so our ship moored offshore and we went ashore by tender. When I was a child one of the first long playing records my parents bought was South Pacific and I listened so often I can still...
by Clare Flynn | Jul 19, 2020
What was meant to be a seven day stretch at sea – anyway our longest of the whole voyage – turned out to be ten days. Early on the morning of the day we were due to hit land at last on the Polynesian island of Nuka Hiva – one of the highlights of the trip – I heard...
by Clare Flynn | Jul 7, 2020
I didn’t expect to like Acapulco so much. While it had seemed exotic, luxurious and enticing when I was a teenager and it still had a reputation as the playground of the stars, more recently I’d heard it wasn’t very nice at all. This impression was...
by Clare Flynn | Jun 8, 2020
Three days after the Panama Canal we reached Guatemala. I was feeling tired after a cold and a sleepless night. I accidentally stepped on someone’s toe at the meeting point for the excursion I was doing and got my head chewed off by my victim despite my abject...
by Clare Flynn | May 9, 2020
I’ve been neglecting this blog. I can’t blame You-Know-What, as the last post I made was on March 1st and I didn’t go into isolation until 19th March, just ahead of the official lockdown on 23rd. Anyway, I came across the journal I kept on my Round...
by Clare Flynn | Jan 1, 2020
Happy New Year and Happy New Decade to all my readers The last decade has been a momentous one for me in so many ways – a period of dramatic change. I began 2010 living in London, working as a management consultant, working hard to recover from the impact of the...
