I cruised on the Queen Elizabeth, Dec. 15, 2010-Jan. 5, 2011, embarking in Southampton, England, and visiting Madeira, then crossing the Atlantic to Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados, Dominica and Tortola before recrossing the ocean to Ponta Delgada, Azores, and Southampton. Excluding airfare, the cost for my inside, single cabin was $8,010.
We asked any of you who attended a concert, a recital or any music or dance performance or stage production outside of the US in the last couple of years to tell us how you learned about it and how you obtained tickets. We requested the following.
I was delighted to read Martha Wiley’s article “Spending the Day in Alicante” (Sept. ’11, pg. 18). Alicante is a lovely city. One of its attractions is its moderate climate — never too hot or too cold.
Ms. Wiley mentioned the very nice beach Playa del Postiguet, which is right in town just beyond the yacht harbor and the Meliá and Porta Maria hotels. Another nice beach, larger and less crowded, is Playa de San Juan, easily reached by the tram that runs from Playa de Postiguet.
In next month’s column I’ll have the results of your voting for Most Favorite Country.
We asked any of you who attended a concert, a recital or any music or dance performance or stage production outside of the US in the last couple of years to tell us how you learned about it and how you obtained tickets. To that end, we requested the following of you.
Every night at 9 on Sentosa island in the Singapore Strait, two 10-story-tall, 80-ton animatronic cranes, whose wings are jets of water and who are bedecked with colorful lighting and visual effects, perform a 10-minute courtship dance on the waterfront at Resort World Sentosa (8 Sentosa Gateway, Sentosa Island, Singapore 098269; phone [+65] 6577 8888). The show is free and can be seen from off-site locations and the resort’s shopping and dining strip.
Salzburg’s historic city center became a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in 1996, and a visit to the delightful Old Town will convince you it truly is a special place.
Drenched in Incan and Spanish history and culture, Lima, Peru, is an amazing place to visit, and the Plaza Mayor, with its Government Palace and cathedral, is a great starting point for a walking tour, as we found in November ’09. The architecture there is only one appeal. Many of the street signs are made of decorative tiles, and the tops of the street lamps look like crocheted metal.
Downtown Lima offers a lively street scene, with vendors, music and dramatic colors; my camera was busy.
by Jay Brunhouse (Third of three parts)
On a trip to China with Grand Circle Travel, Nov. 12-Dec. 2, 2009, my wife, Anne, and I didn’t visit Hong Kong Disneyland. However, we saw a number of attractions that reminded us of Disney, some of which out-Disneyed Disney.
Top of the list has to be the Hong Kong Symphony of Lights, a show in which colored lights of the buildings on both sides of Victoria Harbour are coordinated to form patterns, pictures and words, all accompanied by symphonic music.