We flew into Sydney first and spent a week or so there seeing all the must-see sights. Our hotel, the Shangri-La, though recently redone in the manner of say a Hilton, had by far the finest vistas of any hotel in the city. From its upper floors, and especially from its club floor lounge, we could see the sunrise over the Pacific, […]
After exhausting the possibilities of Brisbane and in search of new adventure, I booked a room at the sumptuous, if excessively ornate, Hotel Palazzo Versace situated at the north end of a roughly twenty mile long stretch of chock-a-block beach towns known as the Gold Coast, population 600,000. […]
For the first several weeks of the refit work, I stayed in the Brisbane CBD in a room on the 20th floor of the tired but well located Stamford Plaza Hotel. Sited on the Brisbane River Walk, alongside the Botanical Gardens, and just a block from the many cafes, restaurants and bars of Eagle Street Pier, it was a near ideal location from which to wander about the city. […]
Indigo has carried ever since its initial construction the yachting world’s highest and most stringent classification, Lloyd’s 100 A1. One of the many and excruciatingly detailed requirements for maintaining this seal of approval is that the vessel must undergo a major Lloyd’s monitored refit and survey each ten years, a period that expired just as we pulled into the Marine Industry Park, […]
Bed Time Muzz sounds like, what? A libidinous sport perhaps or another term for extreme bed head. Instead, the words are the names of the three best night spots in Noumea, each in turn frequented by the crew of Indigo and its owner. Bed bar is the most cleverly named, as in “Want to go to Bed with me?” and the newest of the lot. […]