Welcome from David and Lyn.

The format of our site is in three parts:

1. Blog server - our day-to-day travel blogs (this website)
2. Photo server - some of our key photos
3. YouTube channel - our videos (many linked directly from our blogs)

The site includes hundreds of searchable travel blogs. Some of our longer trips are listed below. 

General travel

• Bridge cams - Princess
• Unofficial Travel Awards
• Equator Crossings
• International Date Line

About

• David
• The Thalassophile (lover of the sea)
• The Musician - Uke resources
• The Presenter
• The Photographer
• The Ham (VK4DCP) - Ham resources
• The Vexillophile (flags)
• Lyn
• Countries visited: #1 to #25 | #26 to #50 | #51 to #75 | #76 to #100 | #101+
• Summary of cruises - Pre COVID-19 / Post COVID-19 

Thank you for visiting our website.

Best regards

David and Lyn
e-mail: brizzy@outlook.com.au

Cruise countdown

2026 New Zealand Cruise - Blog Starting Page

2026 European Odyssey River Cruising - Blog Starting Page

2027 Fiji Cruise - Blog Starting Page

2027 Circle Pacific Cruise - Blog Starting Page

Links to major adventures
2025 Pacific North America Cruise Blog - Apr 2025 to June 2025 Cruise #1 - Sydney to LA Repositioning Cruise #2 - Pacific Wine Country Rocky Mountaineer - Discovery Circle Cruise #3 - Voyage of Glaciers (Northbound) Cruise #4 - Voyage of Glaciers (Southbound)
2024 - World Cruise on the Coral Princess Blog - Apr 2024 to Aug 2024 Photos Segment #1: Sydney to Tangier - 35 Days Segment #2: Tangier to Dover (via Baltic) - 21 Days Segment #3: Dover to New York - 18 Days Segment #4: New York to Brisbane - 38 Days
2020 – Indian Ocean & South Africa Odyssey + Southern Australia Explorer Blog - Jan 2020 to Mar 2020 Photos
2019 - Hawaii, Tahiti and South Pacific cruise on the Sea Princess
Blog - Aug 2019 to Oct 2019 Photos
2018 - World Cruise on the Sea Princess
Blog - Jun 2018 to Sept 2018
Photos Segment #1: Brisbane to Dubai - 19 Days Segment #2: Dubai to London - 30 Days Segment #3: London to New York - 20 Days Segment #4: New York to Brisbane - 37 Days
2017 - Cherry Blossom cruise (a.k.a. China - Japan cruise)
Blog - March 2017 to April 2017 Photos
2016 - World Cruise on the Sea Princess
Blog - May 2016 to Aug 2016
Photos Segment #1: Sydney to Dubai – 20 Days Segment #2: Dubai to London – 35 Days Segment #3: London to New York – 11 Days Segment #4: New York to Sydney – 38 Days Home Leg: Sydney to Brisbane – 2 Days
2015 - Hawaii, Tahiti and South Pacific cruise on the Sun Princess
Blog - Jul. 2015 to Aug. 2015 Photos
2014 - South East Asia on the MV Voyager
Blog - Feb. 2014 to Mar. 2014
Photos Leg #1 Treasures of Asia Leg #2 Colours of the Indian Ocean
2012 - Caribbean cruise on the MV Voyager
Blog (by Lyn) - Nov 2012 to Jan 2013
Photos (by David and Lyn) Leg #1 Voyage to the Caribbean Leg #2 Caribbean Gems Leg #3 A Tapestry of Central America
2011 – Far East cruise on the MV Discovery
Blog (by David) - Dec 2011 to Feb 2012
Photos (by David) Leg #1 Treasures of the Orient and Vietnam Leg #2 Empires of the Sun Leg #3 South East Asia and Australia
2010 - Caribbean cruise on the MV Discovery
Blog (by David) - Nov 2010 to Jan 2011
Photos (by David)  Leg #1 Discovery of the New World Leg #2 Colonial Trails of the Caribbean Leg #3 Tales of the Old Spanish Main
2009 - Grand Voyage of Discovery from Mumbai (India) to London on the MV Discovery
Blog (by David) - Mar 2009 to May 2009
Photos (by David) Leg #1 India and The Persian Gulf Leg #2 Red Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Leg #3 Black Sea, Turkey and Greek Isles Leg #4 European - mainly the Mediterranean

Melbourne to Melbourne
16 November 2025 - 29 November 2025
Scootaville Victoria 2025 offers an opportunity for ex-service personnel to come together, reconnect with the community, to discuss any problems with their peers and to explore and bring attention to regional Victoria. Scootaville will celebrate what it means to be Australian and raise awareness of the hardships that service and ex-service personal face. With the help and generousity of the community and sponsors, Scootaville seeks to raise vital funds for Legacy and the Air Force Association (clink here for donation link) to assist families of lost or injured service members and homeless veterans.

David is joining some fellow ex-ADF men and women who will ride 110cc motor scooters on the round trip from Altona. Riding almost 1,500 km will take us 14 days and will be a fundraiser for Legacy and the Air Force Association (clink here for donation link). This is a rare opportunity to explore our beautiful country with our peers, overnighting in Benalla, Beechworth, Omeo, Sale, Tootgarook, Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo, before returning to Altona on the 29th November.

The ride is presented by the Radschool Association Inc., which is a registered charity formed in 1999 to represent the men and women who were trained by the Air Force to either maintain or operate its electronic equipment. It encourages connection and mateship among its 1,400 plus members through its magazine, website, social media, reunions and special events like Scootaville.

The final distance travelled on the scooter ridden by David was XXX km.

All Photos (credit to David .... and many more)

A promotional video (4:46 mins) was produced by Griffith University about this endeavor:

Reference:

• Past Scootaville blogs:
• Queensland: 02-20 September 2022
• Queensland: 22 August - 10 September 2023
• Queensland: 28 August - 15 September 2024
• NSW: 18 November - 04 December 2024
• Queensland: 22 August - 12 September 2025

How can you help?
We invite you to donate via the Scootaville page: https://radschool.org.au/donate/. Your donation is tax deductible. We greatly appreciate your generosity!

Raising much needed funds for:
  

Pre-start | 2026 Scootaville Vic | Day 1

Brisbane to Brisbane (14 Nights)

The adventure begins Wednesday, 06 Jan. 2027 when we board the Grand Princess in Brisbane for the start of our 2027 Fiji cruise and this blog. Open a new tab of the current ship's bridge cam. The blog will be updated when we find a few spare moments. Please check regularly as multiple blogs might be uploaded on the same day. The same is true for the photos.

This adventure is expected to include:

• 14 night Brisbane to Brisbane cruise. Cruising over 5,600 nautical miles (more than 6,500km)
• Visiting 6 destinations in 3 countries, including 2 capitals
• Sailing on the Grand Princess operated by the Princess Cruises line:
• Built 1998 for approx. US$450 million … making her the largest and most expensive passenger ship ever built at the time
• Grand-class (same class as Pacific Encounter / Carnival Encounter ... but without the night-club). The 2011 refit removed the night-club from her stern (ie no longer looks like an over-sized shopping trolley)
• 107,517 gross tonnage, 290m long, 36m wide, 61m high, 8m draft, 17 decks
• 2,600 pax, 1,301 cabins, 1,100 crew

Other key links:

• 2027 Fiji Cruise Photos

01 - 04 November 2025
A short three night cruise to nowhere on the Carnival Encounter. It was David's first cruise with Carmival and Lyn's second on the same ship. Both of us had cruised on this ship in 2023 when she was the P&O Pacific Encounter.

It has the same P&O feel and is very similar in operation. Overall it's probably more "Fun"!

We had booked an interior cabin, but got upgraded to an obstructed ocean view (without any ocean view - see photo below) ... no complaints from us. It was also a comedy cruise, but we were too busy enjoying the fabulous live music to watch any of the comedians... Funny!

Photos / Slide show:

Tuesday, 21 October 2025 - Springwood, Logan / Brisbane
Another lovely get-together. A few couldn't make it, but still a great turn-out. Still talking about the 2027 Circle Pacific cruise that most of us are booked on.

Monday, 23 December 2024 - Springwood, Logan / Brisbane
We finally got to another of these wonderful get-togethers. Great turn-out with a lot of great people. So good to catch up with them again especially after all these years since WC18.

The talk today was about various upcoming cruises, especially the 2027 Circle Pacific cruise (still over 900 days away). It seems a good many people have cancelled their WC25 and WC26 cruises (including us).

Tuesday, 10 October 2023 – Springwood, Logan / Brisbane
Today we had an excellent catch-up with around 20 people at the Lions Club in Springfield. It was a much larger group than the June 2023 get together (sorry, no photos from June).

Of course our discussions were all about cruising with a few people recently finishing this year’s world cruise (WC23). There was also a lot of discussion about the upcoming 2024 and 2025 World Cruises (WC24 and WC25) with many people booked and the excitement building.

In many ways these catch ups are becoming pseudo WC24 and WC25 get togethers – which is wonderful. So much so that a half dozen people have created and joined a private social media group for WC24 planning and around a dozen doing the same for WC25 planning.

Thursday, 25 November 2021 - Springwood, Logan / Brisbane
Great catch up with around 20 wonderful people. Hard to believe it's been 1,161 days since we disembarked the ship. Lots of talk about future cruising with many booked on the 2023 or 2024 world cruises. Thank you Alison for organising and these photos:

Tuesday, 22 June 2021 - Springwood, Logan / Brisbane
A very good turn-out of 21 people for today's get together. It's been three years since the 2018 World Cruise and we are still catching up with these lovely people.

Friday, 01 Nov. 2019 - Springwood, Logan / Brisbane
Another fabulous catch up at the Lions Club in Springwood with around 23 people attending. So many wonderful people - it's like a big happy family.

Friday, 26 July 2019 - Springwood, Logan / Brisbane
It was a wonderful catch up with around 30 people today.  We caught up on the past 12 months and heard about the many awesome future adventures that people are planning.

Thanks Alison and Phillip for organising. Look forward to seeing you all again soon.

Saturday, 10 Nov 2018 - Sandgate, Brisbane
Around 40 people attended the first Brisbane post-cruise get-together in the Northern suburbs of Brisbane. A wonderful way to catch-up with the many friends we had made on the cruise. Unfortunately, no photos from today.

Friday, 26 Oct 2018 - Labrador, Gold Coast
John and Jan organised a post cruise catch-up on the Gold Coast attended by around 14 people. We also had a special guest, the World Cruise's Cruise Director Corey - who was in town for his birthday celebrations.

Reference:

• Blogs: Pre & Post Cruise Meet Ups

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