Travel Intelligence isn’t just about hotels, hotels, hotels; it’s also packed with some of the finest travel writing on the web. To see a selection of top-class travel writing about sailing, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Sailing
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Delving into the Charms of Port Douglas
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Fiona Harper
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Australia
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Queensland
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Port Douglas
"Sailing into Port Douglas after an extensive ocean passage that began in Darwin some 1600 nautical miles and three months prior, there was a palpable air of anticipation on board."
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Hey Big Spender: Luxury Yachts
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Fiona Harper
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Sydney
""In luxury boating terms it really is a case of the ‘haves’ and the ‘have yachts’. Having your own luxury yacht has become an increasingly important addition to other essential ‘must haves’, along with the international holiday house, the private..."
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Mystical Waters and Canal Cruising along the Shannon-Erne Waterways
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Vourneen Taylor
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Ireland
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East Coast Ireland
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Dublin
"Curious swans welcome us aboard our rented six-berth luxury cruiser named Caprice Number 15. Their pristine white feathers are jewelled by beads of water from the Shannon River."
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Faraway Bay
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Belinda Jackson
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Kununurra
"Incredibly, this strip of coastline has never been officially surveyed. All place-names are whatever the locals call them. The bush camp generates its own electricity and takes its water from a freshwater spring"
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Florida Keys
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Claire Gervat
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United States
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Florida
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Florida Keys
"The 100-mile-long string of islands trails like a curve of careless paint drips from the south-east corner of the Sunshine State to within 90 miles of Cuba, and until the early 20th century the only way to get from one end to the other was by boat"
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Cruising the Blue Lagoons
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Daniel Scott
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Fiji
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Yasawa Islands (North)
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Yasawa Islands
"Fed on a steady diet of nodding palms, pearly sand beaches, staggeringly blue seas and teeming reefs, not to mention a seemingly unstoppable conveyor belt of all-too edible food, you're that chilled out that not a lot taxes you."
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Cruising the Burgundy Canals
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Daniel Scott
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France
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Burgundy Region
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Tournus
"It's 4pm on a mid-summer Sunday afternoon in the belly of the Burgundy vineyards. Heat crowds the old town square. Barely a whisper carries across it. It's so still that the slam of a door now would seem like an earthquake."
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Filthy Foreign Lingos
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Jasper Winn
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India
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Kerala Region
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Alleppey
"My approach to learning languages changed totally when I was pointing out to a French girl how her "eez it possible to 'av a... some... 'ow do you zay... eau... wa-ter" attempts at English melted my heart"
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Cruising the Marquesas
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Steve Jermanok
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French Polynesia
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Society Islands
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Nuku Hiva
"750 miles north of Tahiti are the Marquesas Islands, the archipelago most distant from any continent..."
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Party in Porto Cervo
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Devanshi Mody
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Italy
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Sardinia
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Costa Smeralda/Porto Cervo
"Since the 1970s, Porto Cervo, the glitziest point on the Costa Smeralda, has been one of the favourite holiday destinations of the rich and the famous"
