Forum: The WORLD - PILOT GUIDES

A little competition/puzzle for you all. Along the same lines as the 'Which Hurtigruten' thread, but this one is for shore based things. In the...

St Aubins Bay, five minutes from my home

I found this interesting site on the web: http://www.arcticimages.com/index.htm Unfortunately the images are copyrighted and for sale, but it is...

hi there, i'm just boarded as a new member and and willing to show you where i live and where i have been not that pittoresque as Woudrichem...

Hello, a warm greeting from Torrevieja, Spain We have now been here a week and it has been nice and warm compared to what is at home in Norway at...

Located about 80 km west from Stockholm you will find Strängnäs. The town is the centre of the municipality, Mariefred is the second town located...

I spent a long week in a place i love since a long time the Luberon,in north Provence,near Avignon. Following,some pictures of this journey in the...

We have a lot of "This is ......" threads, but not one for Malaysia. Although I have posted a few pics from there in other threads before, I hereby...

I said some time ago that I would start a thread called "This is Singapore". Well here is first installment. I have found a lot of pictures of...

This weekend we had a holiday to Texel with Cornel and Marijke. we'd rented a house at the capital Den Burg and stayed there 4 days. we had seen...

This is Japan We should really have a thread about JAPAN... a destination I have visited many times, but always dream of going back to.... But...

Japan Earthquake magnitude 9.0 and the following tsunami Horrific images across the media today, as an 8.9 magnitude earthquake hits 150...

i want to show you Woudrichem or Woerkum as we say in dialect. Woerkum is the maincity of our comunity thats also called Woudrichem. Woerkum had...

This will be a short thread but after climbing to the top I'm going to post some pictures. It was a beautiful day and walking around town I kept...

As some have figured out, we took a little holiday from our holiday in Norway, and went to Southern Spain for a week to warm up. (Actually the night...

Here is my collection of Midtown Manhattan (New York City) McDonalds. This is one of the McDonalds located inside the Macy's department store. ...

A few images from Burma Many years ago, I went to Burma for a sessions of meetings and negotiations, and to visit the former coastal steamer Kong...

It would not be Istanbul (not Constantinople) without minarets and some Turkish flags. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) by day. ...

OK, now that Gibraltar is no longer usable as a subject in the "What place is this" thread I can open this new thread. Just to let you know who...

Was one week in Budapest, Hungary, now from 8. January 2012. As I didn't find any thread about Budapest, I started this one. Budapest is a city...

my trip started with Quantas Business Class Heathrow to Singapore. I was upstairs in the bubble as they call it. my starter food

Another country that doesn't have it's own thread on CVF is Indonesia and is my favourite country. Contrary to popular Western perception it is not...

This thread is dedicated to Elizabeth who will arrive in Copenhagen before I do . . . Lets start with you know who . . . actually she’s very close...

Happy New Year to everyone, I hope 2011 is good to you. This morning we had leisure divers in Loch Sunart. Approaching the water's edge ...

1993 Virginia Air and Space Center Not the best of quality, but just in case anyone wants to see how it was like almost 20 years ago. ...

Back in time, back to Bali...... Padang Bay, Bali, in 1999 Here are some looks back in time, to 1999, a whole 12 years ago. They were taken when I...

The story behind the pictures, both of which I hope you will enjoy. As a child, almost all I knew of uncle Will was that he went to Australia in...

First, how bad is it that I feel I have to say where Yalta is? I feel bad now that I see , Ukraine in the thread title but if I were talking to...

If I had a bit more money I would love to spend more time in Odessa. A surprisingly beautiful and gentile city. First I'll get the usual tourist...

Another S.E.Asian country without it's own thread on CVF? OK, that has to be corrected. Welcome to Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Negara Brunei...

Save the tigers! Do not buy tiger parts! My absolutely favorite animal in the world all lives in Africa, and some in Asia as well: the lion, the...

This new thread is where I am very gradually over time going to post photos from a voyage on the Hurtigruten ship Fram in January/February 2009, as...

I was not crazy about Romania but I could see some old beauty in Constanta. I suppose this is their claim to fame. The casino, closed and falling...

During the last weekend i was the tour guide for a group of 34 people from our wander clubs of Black Forest and Thüringen/Rennsteig. As some may...

These caves were dug by monks wishing to escape bandits. Many spent much of their lives in their little caves, only coming down on Sunday. ...

I know everyone has seen the usual pictures of the Acropolis and other old stuff. Here are some shots I tried to do a little differently trying to...

Since I did not see a thread for Rio de Janeiro, thought I would share my photos. I have been working there offshore on a boat on and off these last...

I had been about to post some photographs I took last Friday in the Scotland 2011 thread. Then realising how many there were, I wondered about a...

Another country less visited will hereby get it's own thread on CVF. Papua New Guinea was familiar territory for me back when it was still an...

Hi all, I figured we should have a thread for pictures, videos, web links, etc that show the many interesting things in nature that make this...

There have been many Churches and Temples and maybe a Mosque or two shown on CVF, but no specific threads for them. I hereby start one, beginning...

One of the ports of call on the cruise I recently took aboard MV Discovery was Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Tallinn is also on the itinerary...

a fantastic journey through the Glaciers,

visiting Vancouver before start of cruise.

This is Skagway

flying over the Glacier and landing on it, another wonderfull journey

National Geographic's new top-list This is the sixth annual survey of destination stewardship to appear in Traveler. Conducted by the National...

I am looking for adresses of united seamanswifes all over the world for contact with our own union: Vereniging Maritieme Gezinskontakten.(VMG) So...

I pretty much have my wife convinced to sneek in a trip to the Netherlands late this year. I'm thinking we would stay 5-7 days in Amsterdam. I know...