We got off the cruise ship and headed straight for our pre-booked motel, the Lafayette, in Fort Lauderdale. Three days of good food, beach and sunset cocktails. When we got there I almost immediately started humming the old "Meat Loaf" tune "Two out of Three ain't Bad" to myself. There was a beach, but restaurants, cocktail bars and stores of any kind were few and far between. Heading south from the Lafayette Motel, it's about a 3 - 5 kilometre walk to th...

I know that we've just come home from a trip, but an opportunity presented itself and we couldn't say no. Ellen and I are in Fort Lauderdale, waiting to board an ocean liner. The Solstice is over three-hundred metres long. It has thirteen or fourteen floors that are filled with restaurants, bars, theatres, swimming pools, casinos, exercise rooms, libraries and other not so memorable hot-spots. We’ve got a room with a balcony, which the Solstice folk...