Category Archives: Travel

I visited Santarem, a town on the Amazon river. The Amazon is famous for being very big. And it’s famous for being full of piranhas. As a crew tour, we went piranha fishing. Most of the 30 people on the boat caught no fish. Three people caught one piranha each. I caught two. And then [...]

I spent the week around New Years 2010 to 2011 on the Prinsendam, cruising around the Caribbean. And because it is the Prinsendam, and the Prinsednam specializes in visiting ports that other cruise ships are either to big or not adventurous enough to visit. I don’t think I’ve ever been on a Prinsendam cruise where [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time in Lisbon since first visiting in 2008. I’ve visited many times on cruise ships, I spent 3 weeks there in early 2009 with Pola, and another week in the summer of 2009 too. On those longer visits we stayed in the apartment belonging to Duarte and Elisa, and I’ve [...]

I make fun of Corsica’s lack of notability in the Take Me To Zanzibar video, along with Austria, Poland and Albania. The line goes “Corsica, Napoleon, Austria, Hitler, Poland, the last pope, Albania, no idea.” This just goes to highlight my total ignorance of Corsica outside of Napoleon spending time there in exile, and what [...]

I’ve worked on the Prinsendam many times, sometimes up to seven cruises in a single year. I have more photos of the Prinsendam in different ports than any other single subject I can think of. Maybe one day I’ll collect together all the images I have of this one ship into a single blog post, [...]

Can I call the photos I’ve taken in the city where I live “travel photos”? Maybe so if I’m doing tourist stuff. In October of 2010 someone I’d become very close to visited me in Berlin, and by the time she left we were boyfriend and girlfriend. It was a long distance relationship, and it [...]

Okay, it turns out I don’t always have 15 to 50 photos from each place I visit. On this trip to Oslo, Norway, it seems I only took one photo. This is the roof of the opera house built on reclaimed land in the port, and opened a few years ago. I’ve done most of [...]

Kotor is in Montenegro, one of the newest countries in Europe. I visited in April of 2010. It claims to be in the southernmost fjord in the northern hemisphere, though I also read the fjord isn’t actually a fjord, just a flooded river valley. It looked like a fjord to me. I’ll leave it to [...]

I’ve visited Venice many times, as it is a popular destination for cruise ships. And of all the ports I’ve ever sailed into or out of, Venice is one of the most impressive. New York and Rio de Janeiro also come to mind as great places to approach by sea, but Venice by cruise ship [...]

This is the first of my scheduled “catch up on the massive backlog of travel photography I’ve not shared on my blog” posts. Back in 2010 I decided to do a podcast called Luke Around the World where I talked about every travel location I visited, and shared my photographs here on the blog too. [...]