Hints and tips:
...On a cruise, I can’t just take off on a whim, which would be murderous if you didn’t like the people you were with, and frustrating if you’re used to travelling solo....
...Squinting towards the distant shoreline I saw small patches of dazzling white dotted along the thin line of greenery....
...Sitting in the lounge of the Heritage Adventurer — an 88-cabin ice-strengthened expedition cruise ship — he rubbed his huge, leathery hands together....
...Fighting the urge to stop for a cocktail at a waterfront restaurant FYI: Looking out from Coal Harbour, you’ll see waterfowl, Stanley Park, the North Shore mountains, float planes, cruise ships — and the...
...But from the shoreline, the view is an uninterrupted blue horizon....
...With a 7,600km shoreline, it is no wonder Italians are such nautical creatures. The popular seaside image of my compatriots is one of smug sunbathers eating lasagne in Speedos....
...Sightseeing visits to neighbouring countries, such as Saudi Arabia, have also been promoted as something to fill the hours....
...from booking a balcony on Bourbon Street or a private venue on Frenchmen Street, to watching the raucous Allstate Sugar Bowl Parade roll through Jackson Square with the crowds, to an all-evening river cruise...
...Cruise ships are moored. The Nile is so clean I swim in it every day. But for every gloriously deserted temple there is a guide and vendor whose living has been bitterly compromised. Buy programme....
...The English seaside resort of Weymouth is in the heart of the Jurassic coast, an almost 100-mile stretch of shoreline renowned for its fossils....
...With the focus on the natural world rather than shore visits, such yachts often come with submersibles for underwater exploration or fast tenders for exploring the shoreline....
...One afternoon a vast glass and metal Hurtigruten cruise liner motors past the mouth of our fjord, despatching a blast of fog horn that echoes down the granite flanks for a good 20 seconds....
...“We’d expect to welcome 5,000 visitors a day just off cruise ships at this time of year. But the cruises are cancelled because of the virus and the airport’s hardly been operating,” she said....
...In 11-degree waters, swimmers cover about 1.25 miles, from the island to Aquatic Park on the San Francisco shoreline, the fastest of them completing the event in 20 minutes....
...The air tasted of salt, and along the shoreline, waves threw up tall aprons of spray. Far out, the unblemished line of the horizon divided two shades of deep blue....
...The shoreline below the villas is fabulously rich in sea life....
...up the mighty river from Basel to Amsterdam, with daily disembarkations for a few gentle hours of in-saddle sightseeing up pan-flat bike paths....
...Bad luck for Tom Cruise....
...Nothing wants to eat you, not even the lumbering prehistoric catfish said to cruise the very darkest, deepest depths....
...At Lamp No Yado, a ryokan embedded in a craggy shoreline, the private onsen has a large window that frames the Sea of Japan....
...The 385-acre area encompasses nine islands and six miles of lake shoreline, and is home to a one-of-a-kind bonsai collection. But the 2.6m plants are not the only thing being cultivated....
...In the middle of the river, a four-storey cruise boat rumbled by, its wake sending us bobbing in the undulating water....
...But with Reykjavík’s harbour full of whale-watching tour boats and cruise ships, and its streets alive with the rustle of Berghaus and North Face, the question soon seemed redundant....
...Along the coast hideous buildings cluster around the shoreline....
...The white beach, James told us, is actually a “midden” — millions of pieces of clam and mussel shells piled up from thousands of years of human habitation — intended to prevent erosion of the shoreline....
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