St Helena alongside at Portland in 2024 Credit pauldimages.co.uk (Marinetraffic)

S.S. Unites States Travel poster by Lester Thomas Beall (Wikipedia)

Manila cathedral

m/v Baleno, 1971 built in Japan

Super Shuttle Roro 9 (SSR9)

The Mindoro loop

Having had our business and tourism concluded in Bangkok we headed for Vietnam, this time for Hanoi as neither of us had ever been there.  H...

Chao Phraya river

Taking the train to the former capital Ayutthaya in the morning.  Bangkok Hualamphong train station

Sirimahannop

Vanvarang on Chao Phraya

Nice airport

"Khaled A" just before sunset

Having written a piece back in 2008 I thought a follow up might be in order regarding piracy as a lot of water has flowed under the bridge s...

"Nao Trinidad" in Port Tarraco

Courtesy by tenor.com

Hamburger Correspondent 31 July 1914 Ship position reports

Cover for the magazine "Żeglarstwo"

The German "naval association" (Marinebundes) magazine featured in their 1/2-2025 edition a 3 page article of Anny von Hamburg wri...

The newspaper Västra Nyland honored Anny von Hamburg as part of a picture collage and was named one of the important news subjects that occ...

Having done my admin I wasn't keen on flying back, at least not with Vueling on the grueling flight from Barcelona - Helsinki that I had...

  Hanse sail Rostock 08/1997 Credit: Volker Gries

Received from postal courier

As I needed to have some watches serviced I took the train to Genoa and at the same time made a date with my ex Chief Engineer Daniel for a ...