Cruising with cargo
February 17, 2024
Freighter cruises are a unique way to travel the world and they are offered by cargo shipping companies whose ships also carry passengers.
Freighter cruises are a unique way to travel the world and they are offered by cargo shipping companies whose ships also carry passengers.
LestertheInvester outlines a journey from South America to Antarctica, aboard the fabulous new expedition ship, the Viking Octantis.
Gumbo was visiting the Viking Ship Museum, sitting at the end of a fjord in Roskilde. Besides preserving and demonstrating how Viking ships were constructed, the museum features the remains of 5 original Viking ships that are more than a thousand years old.
DrFumblefinger visits the Vasa Museum, the most popular museum in Scandinavia. Here you’ll find displayed an intact and remarkably well preserved warship that is almost 400 years old.
Cruise lines sell the chance to see Arctic wildlife and claim they can do so without causing harm. However, many Inuit and other indigenous people who have inhabited the Arctic for millennia are deeply worried. Tourists buy souvenirs and bring income but also a growing threat of sewage and heavy fuel oil pollution as well as the disturbance and destruction of wildlife, such as ships striking whales in narrow channels. Shrinking sea ice is allowing larger cruise ships to venture farther into…
A sight you won’t see anymore, Ian Cook shares these photos of the QEII sailing into the River Tyne just before her retirement in 2008.
Ian Cook takes us on a phototour of the retired Royal Yacht Britannia, and provides a detailed account of her design and distinguished service to Great Britain.
empty deck chairs on the QM2 When we think about cruising the seas aboard a luxury liner, we conjure up images of stately cabins, five star dining, deck quoits, sitting by the pool, dancing till dawn and exotic ports of call. Well, I…
Here’s the discussion to the picture puzzle posted nearly a week ago. Gumbo, like you, was enjoying the nice soft light of dusk over Long Beach’s Harbor in Southern California. He was studying the massive Queen Mary in the distance…
Freighter cruises are a unique way to travel the world and they are offered by cargo shipping companies whose ships also carry passengers.
LestertheInvester outlines a journey from South America to Antarctica, aboard the fabulous new expedition ship, the Viking Octantis.
Gumbo was visiting the Viking Ship Museum, sitting at the end of a fjord in Roskilde. Besides preserving and demonstrating how Viking ships were constructed, the museum features the remains of 5 original Viking ships that are more than a thousand years old.
DrFumblefinger visits the Vasa Museum, the most popular museum in Scandinavia. Here you’ll find displayed an intact and remarkably well preserved warship that is almost 400 years old.
Cruise lines sell the chance to see Arctic wildlife and claim they can do so without causing harm. However, many Inuit and other indigenous people who have inhabited the Arctic for millennia are deeply worried. Tourists buy souvenirs and bring income but also a growing threat of sewage and heavy fuel oil pollution as well as the disturbance and destruction of wildlife, such as ships striking whales in narrow channels. Shrinking sea ice is allowing larger cruise ships to venture farther into…
A sight you won’t see anymore, Ian Cook shares these photos of the QEII sailing into the River Tyne just before her retirement in 2008.
Ian Cook takes us on a phototour of the retired Royal Yacht Britannia, and provides a detailed account of her design and distinguished service to Great Britain.
empty deck chairs on the QM2 When we think about cruising the seas aboard a luxury liner, we conjure up images of stately cabins, five star dining, deck quoits, sitting by the pool, dancing till dawn and exotic ports of call. Well, I…
Here’s the discussion to the picture puzzle posted nearly a week ago. Gumbo, like you, was enjoying the nice soft light of dusk over Long Beach’s Harbor in Southern California. He was studying the massive Queen Mary in the distance…