Mein Schiff Relax 2026
A week with friends on Mein Schiff Relax from Gran Canaria: cycling over the mountains of La Palma, Funchal by bike, Loro Parque on Tenerife at carnival time and a windy day in Arrecife.
Cruises
2026
2025
AIDA Gibraltar 2025
A December week on the freshly refitted AIDAluna from Mallorca: Gibraltar, the Bioparc in Málaga, the Roman theatre in Cartagena, La Albufera near Valencia and a stroll through Barcelona.
AIDA North Cape 2025
"Winter in the far north" on AIDAsol: storms with metre-high waves, Bergen in the rain, Tromsø and the reindeer, the North Cape from Honningsvåg, Alta, Trondheim and the murals of Måløy.
2024
AIDA Canary Islands 2024
A week on AIDAcosma from Gran Canaria: Funchal on Madeira, Loro Parque on Tenerife and Lanzarote – in a suite at the stern, despite a general bus strike.
AIDA Metropolises 2024
A January week from snowy Hamburg: the SeaCity Titanic museum in Southampton, a day trip to Paris, Bruges with chocolates and waffles, and Rotterdam by water taxi.
2023
AIDA Caribbean 2023
The ABC tour on AIDAdiva from La Romana: private tours on Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, rainforest on St Lucia, a catamaran off Barbados, Martinique, Dominica, St Kitts and Maho Beach on Sint Maarten.
AIDA Norway 2023
A week in a junior suite on AIDAnova from Kiel: the Hardangerfjord, a boat trip on the Geirangerfjord, Ålesund by hop-on hop-off bus, Stavanger and a bridge tour with dinner at Rossini.
AIDA North Cape 2023
Two winter weeks on AIDAmar from Hamburg to the far north: Haugesund, the Saltstraumen near Bodø, the ice hotel in Alta, the North Cape from the sea, husky sledding in Tromsø – and the northern lights.
2022
AIDA Crete 2022
Eight days on AIDAblu from Crete to Mallorca: the Acropolis in Athens, Syracuse, Palermo, Pompeii and Sorrento, and Olbia.
AIDA Metropolises 2022
Back at sea after more than two years: a week from Hamburg under coronavirus rules, with Cherbourg, Zeebrugge, lots of spa time – and a frank verdict on AIDA's IT.
2019
TUI Mediterranean 2019
Our first cruise with TUI: a few days in Arenal, then 10 days on Mein Schiff 4 via Cádiz, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Málaga and Valencia to Barcelona – with a comparison with AIDA.
2018
AIDA Caribbean 2018
Christmas 2018 on AIDAluna from Montego Bay: a fan meeting on board, Grand Turk by golf cart, the 27 Waterfalls, Jamaica with Willydoo, sloths on Roatán, Tulum and Stingray City.
2017
AIDA Transfer Cruise 2017
21 days on AIDAbella from Dubai to Bangkok: a desert safari in Fujairah, Muscat, India (Goa and Cochin), the Maldives, Langkawi, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Koh Samui.
AIDA Metropolises 2017
Our first trip on AIDAprima in December: Southampton, the chalk cliffs near Le Havre, Christmas in Bruges and Rotterdam – plus our verdict on the new ship.
2016
AIDA Metropolises 2016
A week on AIDAmar from Hamburg: the Tower of London, Le Havre, Bruges with Belgian waffles and a sunny day in Amsterdam with a canal tour.
2015
AIDA Canary Islands 2015
A week on AIDAsol from Gran Canaria: a Tukxi tour on Madeira, a spa day at sea, Lanzarote, Loro Parque on Tenerife and the old town of La Palma.
AIDA Caribbean 2015
March 2015 on AIDAvita – after a nail-biting Lufthansa strike: Miami, Universal Studios, San Juan, a beach day on Jost Van Dyke, whales in Samaná Bay and Nassau.
2014
AIDA Caribbean 2014
Christmas 2014 on AIDAvita: Miami and the Everglades, Universal Studios from Tampa, New Orleans, the Maya pyramids from Cozumel and Christmas Eve in Key West.
AIDA Southeast Asia 2014
Two weeks on AIDAaura through Southeast Asia: Pattaya, Koh Samui, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore with the Raffles Hotel, the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and finally Bangkok.
2013
AIDA Mediterranean 2013
In March 2013 we were back on AIDAmar for the western Mediterranean: Tunisia, Palermo's Capuchin catacombs, Naples, Rome the day after the papal election – and a big storm.
AIDA Red Sea 2013
For my wife's special birthday we took our first AIDA cruise: the Red Sea on AIDAmar, with Petra in Jordan (in snow!), Eilat, Safaga, Cairo and the pyramids.
2011
Oslo 2011
Our first mini cruise: with Color Line's M/S Fantasy from Kiel to Oslo – ship, cabin and a city tour with the opera house, Holmenkollen, Vigeland Park and the Viking ships.