Viaduct Harbour Visit the center of Auckland sailing and the place for the finest restaurants, bars, and luxury apartments. Read more SEA LIFE Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium SEA LIFE Kelly Tarlton’s Aquarium is New Zealand’s most famous aquarium! It is home to New Zealand's only sub...
Melbourne Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki Common factors remain. A liveable city has low crime rates, decent weather, good education, superb healthcare, reliable transport and an airport with a host of international destinations. It’s the sort of place where ...
This book was of particular interest to me because it touches on a topic that I will cover in a future Kydd title. On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy’s African Squadron was formed, its mission to ...
The port of Piraeus was made up of three harbours: the great commercial harbour of Kantharos (featured in An Altar of Indignities), and the smaller military harbours of Zea and Munichia. Piraeus has been an important naval and commercial hub for centuries and, in the Classical Greek and R...
Lord Melbourne remarked that St Edward’s Chapel was “more unlike a Chapel than anything [I] have ever seen; for, what was called an Altar was covered with sandwiches, bottles of wine, etc.” (At the coronation of George VI, the late Queen’s father, many peers, clearly with tidier ...
A three-hour, CA$25 bus journey from Montreal withOrleans Express, Quebec City, the French-speaking capital of the Quebec province, has conveniently central Airbnb apartments. Dating back to 1608,Quebec Cityis one of North America’s oldest European settlements. Today, this UNESCO World Heritage...
There’s not a lot to occupy your time there, except walking around and gasping at the extraordinary displays of wealth represented by the yachts moored in the harbour, the expensive cars that roar around the city as if it were a permanent Grand Prix circuit, the ostentatious arrivals and ...