It was a very elegant line, the Royal Viking.

You'll never get that on a regular tour. We go to the small places the mass hordes don't go, and we use personal guides and small groups so you are able to ask questions and really listen to the guide.

I haven't counted how many times I've gone. Easily 40 or so times.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.