Good flight from Bangkok yesterday, transfer to patong beach uneventful, was not impressed with Patong beach, but hotel let us use pool while we waited to embark at 4 pm. Smaller than the Royal Clipper, Star Clipper is great, our cabin , just one of two on the top aft deck just two steps away from pool couldn’t be better located. Set sail at ten pm after great dinner with good company .

Our brass and teak cabin, small but perfectly formed. Just returned from snorkelling on coral reef lovely to see it so healthy with fish in abundance, spent so long in , fingers and toes remain all wrinkly. Large super yacht nr by Lionheart will look it up when we get back on the grid . Met very nice Canadian couple Sue & Greg keep bumping into them as they appeared at keep fit at 8 am, the beach at the same time and one of the set of six that snorkelled t...

Our second night in Bangkok, staying in the fabulous Penisular Hotel. A jaw dropping Oasis of calm with city views from the 31 st floor. An intense day of sightseeing with our private guide Dew, enabled us to navigate the city on a variety of modes of transport, water taxi, yuk yuk, Skytrain. The temples and Grand Palace, while busy were put into context for us by Dew and we learnt loads about Buddhism, the contribution of the Royal Family both in the past and ...

Last blog. Can’t quite believe it but the trip is over and we write this from a quiet corner of the immense departure lounge of HK airport. I tried to capture the sheer scale of it but the picture didn’t do it justice. The entrance is like a scene from a science fiction novel with gangways leading in at various levels to a huge concourse. As we entered we saw yet another gaggle of youngsters probably the thousandth of this trip taking yet another batch of sel...

Well that’s it then - the final day of our holiday as tomorrow sees us going to the airport and home. After the peace and quiet of Fiji with such laid back people and stunning scenery with very few other folk around this was always going to be different. It certainly is. Went for a walk first thing and then on one of the old, famous Star ferries across to the island of Hong Kong. The humidity was sapping and so we went over to the south of the island to Aberd...