You know you’re on a big ship when you spend a week exploring it and still don’t get to see everything.

A Sydney couple just back from a 7-day Caribbean cruise out of Florida on Royal Caribbean’s new super-jumbo liner Oasis of the Seas told their travel agent they’re sorry they didn’t book to go around again.

A week, they said, just wasn’t enough to check out all of the ship’s amazing range of entertainment options and other features.

Do you wish you could attract envious glances from other motorists when you’re out driving?

Do you long to see them leap from their cars to get a better look when you pull up at lights?

Mike Whitney says you can experience that celebrity feeling all day long for less than $1000.

Judging by the number of stories in the media recently about high-speed rail projects around the world, you’d think every person boarding a train is in a desperate rush to get from one place to the next.

But thousands of older Australians are finding the somewhat sedate 85kmh average speed of The Ghan tourist train quite adequate, particularly when the journey offers many of the comforts of home and occasional stops for sightseeing.

A record 700,000 or so Australians visited the USA in 2009, attracted by historically low air fares and continuing saturation media coverage of every move (good and bad) that America and Americans make.

But few will have given it the close inspection that Dean and Kath Le Page just undertook.

The Sydney couple, in their early 30s, decided in late August to take three months’ leave from their jobs to drive across the States by car from east to west, starting in New York and ending in Los Angeles.

Ever wondered why the captain is the last person to leave a sinking ship?

News that a US network is planning to revive one of TV’s best-loved crime dramas brings back memories for Sydney journalist David Ellis.

Makes you wonder what time people in Croatia get up in the morning.

Saskia Baker and friends thought they’d made a night of it recently when they left a restaurant on the Dalmatian coast at 2am.

Travel agent Antoinette Duncan knows of a salon where you can get a hair wash and a "heavenly" head, back, shoulders and arms massage all for about $2.

Don’t take a long cruise if you’re close to your grandchildren.

Ron and Cheryle Bender have just spent 104 nights at sea, on the inaugural Dawn Princess world cruise from Sydney.

There are various ways of going to the dogs.

Queenslander Wendy Bell and her partner Geoff went by helicopter, to a dog-sled camp high up on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier.