Star Clipper Notes

It must be quite dismaying to spend 50 million on a yacht, come to Cannes, and find you are the cheapest boat on the block. I saw some 70 yachts of all description, and all in a tidy row, and all BIG. Some even had helicopters perched on the top deck. By the way, isn’t yacht a funny looking word?

(Western Mediterranean)

The Disorient Express

"Don't worry about your connection", the reservations agent said. "If your train is late, we'll just slow the other one down."

(United States)

It's the Marshall's, Charley

"Geoffrey", a large Marshallese woman dictated, handing me a radio, "get on da boat."

(Marshall Islands)

Darwin or Lose

"I have been covering the Galapagos Islands for twenty years", said Miriam Diaz of the travel company Canodros, "and you are the first person I have ever heard of that was bitten by a blue-footed booby"

(Galapagos Islands)

Jamaica Includes It All

"You are not allowed to use the nude pool unless you are naked. We have no report on the nude pool. However, a look from afar confirmed a suspicion of mine. Nudity is not necessarily sexy."

(Jamaica)

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Goat?

"There is nothing that will send a sharper elbow into to the ribs of your sense of universal order than rounding a corner on the road from Essaouira to Marrakesh, Morocco, and coming upon seven or eight goats scattered like so many Christmas ornaments in a 30 foot thorny Argan tree."

(Morocco)