The Queen Mary 2, passenger ship, arriving on schedule at 07:00, Saturday morning, on the 17th February 2007 into Auckland, New Zealand.

The Queen Mary 2, passenger ship, arriving on schedule at 07:00, Saturday morning, on the 17th February 2007 into Auckland, New Zealand.

From Frederikshavn (Denmark) to Göteborg/Gothenburg (Sweden) by ship. A 3½ hour trip boiled down to 2½ min.

Driving onto the ferry for the crossing to Bruny Island. It is effectively two islands joined by a narrow isthmus called the 'Neck' and is Tasmania's fourth largest island.

Cruisers disembark and toured Valparaiso, Chile and then traveled to Santiago, Chile to end their day's exciting excursion.

Board the cruise boat at Adventure Bay Bruny Island Hobart Tasmania, to see Jurassic dolerite cliffs, explosive blow hole, Triassic sandstone cliffs, sea caves, Friar Rocks-home to cover a thousand Australia Fur Seals and sea bird.

Taking cruise along the delightful Derwent River and watch contrasting coastline.

A visit to Nanortalik, Greenland during a Transatlantic cruise.

What a concept - learning Italian on a sailboat!!! In May of 2007 I did just that: with 4 other Italian students I boarded the Solitaire II, a 4-cabin sailboat, to study Italian sailing through the beautiful Eolian Islands of Sicily. We were in the capable hands of Francesco, our captain, and Franco, a gifted guitar player, both of them teachers from the Laboratorio Linguisitico Italian Language School in Milazzo, Sicily.

We spent a whole week sailing through gorgeous places such as Lipari, Salina, Stromboli, Panarea and Vulcano, and we had Italian lessons on the boat or in various outdoor bar patios on different islands overlooking the Mediterranean.

Here is a tiny selection of clips from a trip of a lifetime.

An exciting excursion to Italy's beautiful Capri Island.