Articles tagged with 'resort'

We took a little get-away down to Ticino (southern Switzerland) to visit with our friends and enjoy the Italian-influenced cooking the local restaurants offered. It had been almost nine months since were there last and we looked forward to staying at one of the fine hotels in Ascona, the Hotel Giardino Ascona.

Every once in a while you need to take a break from 'camping out' on the yacht and partake of some land-based facilities. Lucky for us, we were anchored close to the new Scrub Island Resort. Finished in 2010, the facility is beautiful and has a number of restaurants, a full service spa, pools and of course a nice marina.

Sa wed dee ka (Hello!) from Thailand, and our second stop here, the tropical peninsula area known as Phuket. Pronounced; "poo-ket", this is the second visit to Thailand for Art and I, our first visit was a few years ago when we came here for the terrific scuba-diving while aboard the Ocean Rover. No diving this time, but we've seen much more of the country and experienced even more of...

We flew into Muscat, Oman, not really knowing what to expect. It was planned as a technical fuel stop for a few days on our way to India. I had no idea what Oman was about other than I'd heard the name before and knew it was 'somewhere over in the Middle East'. I had hazy memories of watching some old movie with guys wearing robes waving swords on horseback across the desert. I was...