NigWar - Nigel Waring

Retired and love travel, cruising in particular and have plenty of time to do it. We like to swap information with others so as to be ready for any holiday to get the most out of it.

The pictures that I have posted here have been resized for the Internet; if anyone would like better quality copies they can have them for free. Starting in 2009 my pictures have been resized to 16:9 ratio so that they will fit a wide screen TV, believe this might be the way of the future. I'll be sending DVDs to my friends with commentary and hopefully background music if I manage to locate some legal royalty free stuff.

Cruises have been disappointing lately so will be going back to coach tours in 2010.

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By NigWar
August 25th 2008

Riverboat Rhine & Moselle Europe » Germany » Rhineland-Palatinate

I should have written this travel blog quite some time ago but honestly the cruise was so disappointing that I couldn’t really muster the enthusiasm. Our problems started when we flew from Reykjavik to Amsterdam to join the cruise, for the second time with them Icelandic Air did not have the promised vegetarian food for us, because of the same problem on the inward flight we had called into their head office and been assured that they would definitely positively have it for us, several other passengers had the same problem with special meals that we don’t think that they could [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
August 24th 2008

Iceland Complete Europe » Iceland

Iceland Complete Tour, Day 1 - 13th August 2008. We were heading to Europe for the trip of a lifetime on a Riverboat, little did we know that the fill in visit to Iceland would turn out to be probably the best holiday that we had ever had. No better way to start it than to travel on this new A380. Luxury and we didn’t realise just how comfortable and quiet it was until we later transferred to another plane. This is the cabin upstairs, must be about the most comfortable economy seating there is with an entertainment system that [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
August 21st 2008

Reykjavik Stopover Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Reykjavík

Visit to Reykjavik. The first thing that any visitor to Reykjavik should do is to visit the Tourist Information Centre at Aðalstræti 2 • IS-101 Reykjavík. Ask anyone, it is in the downtown Reykjavik area and is the Tourist Centre where you meet for walking tours throughout the day. They have a number of well kept secrets the biggest being the Reykjavik Welcome Card, it costs about $12 per day and gives you free travel on all the Strætó City Buses and the Viðey Island Ferry. You can also pop into this centre during the day for free Internet access with [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
May 17th 2008

Australian Reptile Park - Gosford Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Central Coast

We recently visited the Australian Reptile Park on the New South Wales Central Coast, not the easiest of places to get to by public transport but we noticed several coaches in the car park so if you do not have your own transport touring companies would be a good place to start. The park is as much as anything an educational venue for families which is rather valuable because many of the visitors live in areas that contain some of the most dangerous snakes and spiders in the world. The park also has many marsupials and birds, some of them are [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
May 3rd 2008

Melbourne Long Weekend Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

A couple of months ago Virgin Blue had some specials advertised, one was a trip to Melbourne so we decided to pop down for four days. The returns flights were enjoyable; all the Virgin staff seems to be happy and helpful making budget travel a very pleasant experience. We stayed at the Mercure Hotel which is in Swanston Street, one of the main streets in the business district of Melbourne, close to all the public transport and to most of the places that we wanted to visit, be warned though, on the shops side of this street there are many [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
April 1st 2008

Australian Museum, Canberra Oceania » Australia » Australian Capital Territory » Canberra

Not a lot to show for two days in Canberra but naturally they do no allow cameras in the art galleries and exhibitions, it would be a bit like taking a banjo along to the Royal Albert Hall. The following are mainly of the Australian Museum, this is meant to be a fun place designed for families to have a great time. I think the Architect(s) has done a really good job, see what you think. We arrived quite early but later in the day there would be many families and lots of children running around this outdoor area having a [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
March 29th 2008

Bathurst, New South Wales. Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Bathurst

The main purpose of our trip to Bathurst was to visit, situated in the heart of Bathurst, the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum which is the home of the internationally renowned Somerville Collection. This important collection is internationally significant because it covers rare specimens from all over the world. It is housed in the 1876 Public School building which underwent major refurbishment before being fitted out with stunningly beautiful exhibitions. Close to 2000 fossil and mineral specimens are displayed in two main exhibitions. The Somerville Collection is the lifetime work of Warren Somerville and features some of the finest and rarest [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
October 20th 2007

Elizabeth Farm, Sydney, Australia Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Parramatta

When visiting a new country there are many ways to learn about it. A good place to start in Australia is with its history. The entire continent was occupied by Europeans just over 200 years ago, 219 to be exact. It is a fairly large continent, almost the same size as mainland USA which is sometimes called the lower or contiguous 48 states and has an area of about 7.9 million square kilometres. Mainland Australia has an area of 7.6 million square kilometres. In the first decade, just a few hundred people rising to just a few thousand by the [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
October 17th 2007

Port Stephens Dolphin Watch NSW Australia Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Port Stephens

We’ve just been on a mini dolphin watch cruise at Nelson Bay on the mid north coast of New South Wales. Photographically it was not very successful because the boats are not allowed to go nearer than 100 metres to the dolphins and not having a super telephoto these pictures will be a bit fuzzy. These are estuarine bottle nosed dolphins that live in the Port Nelson bay. After the cruise we visited Fingal Point. And had a look at Barry Park in the same area. This seems to be a dormitory town for Newcastle, they’d never be able to [View Full Entry]

By NigWar
September 18th 2007

Western Victoria Australia - Mainly The Grampians Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Grampians

We’ve just had a ten-day trip around Victoria visiting the Grampians, The Great Ocean Road and the Gold Mining district. Victoria is a smallish state of 227,000 Sq Kms, which is about a quarter the size of New South Wales. Its population is around five million compared with New South Wales’s seven million, because of its compact size it does have a much better road system with quite an extensive motorway system, in fact Victoria does most things better than any other state. At one stage we did consider retirement to one of the Melbourne suburbs, on selling our Sydney [View Full Entry]

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