Mark Dapin
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Forget train-spotters: this is the curious new obsession among travel lovers (opens the original)
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Meet the devoted Australians who head to the coast for an unlikely hobby. It's a plane-spotter who explains to me that cruise-ship spotting is a thing. I'm chatting with camera-toting flightseer Kevin Alexopoulos outside Melbourne Airport when he mentions that he also likes to spot and photograph cruise ships coming into Port Melbourne. I enjoy watching cruise ships, too. I live on Sydney Harbour and when a liner leaves its anchorage, it's a spectacular sight - as if a city block has become deta
I went to Liverpool searching for my father, but the city had other surprises (opens the original)
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A family pilgrimage in England, with Beatles and other legends for company. I know that my dad loved me, because when I was little he used to bounce me on his knee and sing the Beatles' hit She Loves You. My dad was born in Liverpool, England, and he liked everything Liverpudlian, from the Beatles to the singer Cilla Black to the comedian Ken Dodd and his Diddy Men from Knotty Ash. When I was 10 years old, my mum left my dad. He was a simple man, abandoned and embittered, and he was no help to m
Race against a drying river: what happens when the water drops on a cruise (opens the original)
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In a scorching summer, the Rhine ran low and the journey took an unexpected turn. What really happens when you're on a luxury river-cruise ship and the river begins to run dry? I didn't imagine I would be racing against time during a languid journey around Europe's Rivers and Castles on board AmaWaterways' lovely 162-passenger AmaCerto. But when we leave our embarkation port of Nuremberg earlier than expected, and Captain Daniel Langius introduces himself over a welcome cocktail in the Lark Loun
The world is going crazy for Japan and Japanese food - but I beg to differ (opens the original)
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I want to be worldly and cultured, by my stomach just disagrees. Although I might look a bit thuggish, with two heavy armloads of faded tattoos, I'm actually quite polite. If somebody puts a meal in front of me, I will generally do my best to eat it. And I'm not sure that seaweed, for example, is food. I know that it's edible, but rose bushes and jungle vines are probably edible, too. I just wouldn't choose them from a menu. For me, one major characteristic of a good meal is that it is cooked. I
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