From around £88pp for a two-day/one night trip, including full board and excursions (+84 933 44 6542, bhayacruises.com) Voyages Jules Verne has a new trip for 2011: a cruise right around Cuba, starting and finishing in Havana.
The combination of bracing air, exciting excursions and comfort aboard made Australis life a hypnotically relaxing experience.
From nearby Puerto Natales, Skorpios offers four-day excursions into the fjords around the southern ice field from £1,100 full-board.
There are more restaurants in Garachico, and excursions include the nearby cliffside village of Masca, and volcanic Mount Teide with its weird, lunar landscapes.
June to October Book it: Sunvil (020 8758 4774; sunvil.co.uk) offers an 11-night trip from £4,090, including a private tour of the Tombs of Sipan, flights, transfers, accommodation, some meals and private excursions.
Hoverspeed (0870 2408070) has three-day excursions for a car and passengers: £89 return midweek; Friday/Saturday £139 return, Sunday £129 return; Overnighter (valid for a maximum stay of 24 hours) £59 return (£10 supplement for Friday/Saturday UK departures).
He could have been distinguished in academic life his work on Herodotus suggests that he could have made his mark as a classical scholar but his excursions into English verse, collected, in 1990, from several slim volumes, hardly suggest that we lost a poet when we gained a politician.
The scheme costs €1000 Euros (£765) for each volunteer which covers travel, accommodation and tourist excursions in the country.
Excursions to the manmade caverns beneath the Langjökull ice cap are being offered by Discover the World with prices from £100pp for a round trip (discover-the-world.co.uk/iceland).
I had excursions to the bizarre beach volleyball, the refined fencing and to Wimbledon, where I saw Roger Federer's epic semi-final win over Juan Martín del Potro and then Andy Murray's demolition of the great man himself.
Cox & Kings (020-7873 5000, coxandkings.co.uk) offers a 10-night Land of Lemurs tour from £2,475 per adult, £1,495 per child, inc international and four domestic flights, full board, driver and guide, transfers and excursions.
