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Thanks Craven - loving your tour!

I'm interested in any current comments on the lounge. I'll be staying at the DT in a little while.

What are your thoughts on LTG Brettmcg?

Or you can eat and drink with Ernie at the Big Easy, his steak restaurant in the Hilton Durban. The steaks were very good though a little pricey by South African standards. We ate there a few times during various cricket visits and enjoyed it though it could be noisy if the adjoining bar was...

A walk in the park!

Looking forward to following yours this time! :)

We are definitely in the home stretch now. To break the journey we had three nights in Hong Kong at the Conrad. I hadn't stayed there for over a year and it was noticeable that very few staff faces were familiar. The hotel was very busy because of a long weekend and there was even queueing to...

We must have been there on a similar timeframe - in our case last Friday to Monday (3 nights). We booked a King Deluxe (Peak view) and were upgraded to an Executive King (Peak view) on the 59th floor. I share your views. It remains a very good hotel. It was extremely busy because of the...

Start of the trip home. We had a couple of hours in the Virgin Atlantic lounge in Terminal 3 at LHR. We decided to have dinner before VS206 21.50 to Hong Kong in order to maximise sleep time on the flight. The food was good as are all aspects of this lounge. The showers are excellent. The deli...

On a warm day we are off to Stratford to see the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like it. It has had very good reviews so we were full of anticipation. Our anticipation was fully rewarded as it's one of the best productions I've seen. The trip from London by train is a...

Another first for me was a visit to the Imperial War Museum in South London. There is a very thorough and moving exhibition on the Holocaust and galleries on the wars Britain has been involved in. There have been a few. The First World War gallery is very good but the Second World War gallery...

Missed you by a day. Chihuly is well worth going out of your way to see. I saw a big exhibition at the de Young in San Francisco in 2008. Quite amazing. There is work by him in several Australian galleries including NGA and NGV.

I lived in London for 7 years from my early 20's and have been back countless times since for visits and catch-ups with friends. In all that time I had never been to Kew Gardens so, on the May Bank holiday, what better than to go? Wrong. Half of London and its visitors had the same idea. We had...

After a week in Paris it is time to move on to London. I have no real idea whey we decided to fly rather than take the train. It is so long since I booked. All I can think now is that I must have seen a BA flight from Orly to London City Airport and, as we planned to stay at the Hilton...

We are creatures of habit. Every visit to Paris for us includes a visit to Pere Lachaise Cemetery in the 20th. The clever thing is to start at the Gambetta metro station and walk down rather than the other end and walk up the hill. Oscar Wilde's grave.

Thanks love_the_life. We are both feeling a lot better and are not hindered but still have the cough four weeks later. You can get nasty bugs on ships!

Parc de Vincennes and the Coulée verte René-Dumont The Coulée verte is the walk that goes from Bastille to just beyond the Peripherique and the Parc De Vincennes, the largest park in the city. It basically follows the line of an old railway track that ran from Bastille to the eastern perimeter...

Curio by Hilton, Maison Astor, Rue D'Astorg, Paris 75008 Ha ha. Like the curate's egg, it is good in parts. This is all from my perspective of course and ymmv. We were upgraded from the standard King to a Junior suite, a one level upgrade. Although I'm a Hilton Diamond I was not expecting...

Well, the cruise ended on Day 133 with a transfer from Greenwich to Heathrow. Two of our four cases, and a large carry bag, are still on board. They are travelling back to Lisbon from where they'll be air freighted by FedEx to Melbourne compliments of Silversea. For some reason bags to Australia...

Days 132 and 133 May 18 and 19 Greenwich, London We got into London around 1.00pm but didn't finally leave the ship to head home until 10.00 am the next day, as scheduled. The idea at Greenwich is that the city can have a cruise terminal for small to medium size ships within reasonable...