Month: January 2022

It’s our fifth sea day if one includes the self-inflicted Barbados situation. On an 11 day cruise in normal times this could […]

We’re persona non grata! More accurately, that would be navem non grata. Either way St Thomas has turned us away as we’ve […]

Officially the name is Saint Christopher Island, but that’s a lot of characters so, like the UK, it has become custom and […]

Poor Grenada … allegedly named by Columbus after Granada, but he couldn’t be bothered and sailed on. Then the French invaded, then […]

A day of many firsts. Not first time in Saint Lucia though. It’s a verdant, beautiful island, well known to many as […]

Just like busses, holiday challenges come in threes! Our Monday plans are in shreds! At breakfast I decide to try the slimmers […]

WHEN Nietzsche wrote “That which does not kill me makes me stronger” he probably hadn’t walked from the Netherlands to France and then back […]

Sea day #2. Nieuw Statendam has sailed from Florida towards the furthest point of this leg, soon we start heading back, stopping […]

Sea days should be lazy days, except when you’re us. More specifically when you eat as much as we do, it’s necessary […]

Exciting to be finally on holiday, the morning starts early as we adjust to our new time zone. Breakfasted before 08:00, we […]