Caribbean 2022

Popular recent opinion is that a large ship is one over 135,000 tonnes. Looking back 100 years, 35,000 was pretty large, and… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 0 – Tuesday 11 Jan

Exciting to be finally on holiday, the morning starts early as we adjust to our new time zone. Breakfasted before 08:00, we… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 1 – Wednesday 12 Jan

Sea days should be lazy days, except when you’re us. More specifically when you eat as much as we do, it’s necessary… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 2 – Thursday 13 Jan

Sea day #2. Nieuw Statendam has sailed from Florida towards the furthest point of this leg, soon we start heading back, stopping… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 3 – Friday 14 Jan

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… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 4 – Saturday 15 Jan

Just like busses, holiday challenges come in threes! Our Monday plans are in shreds! At breakfast I decide to try the slimmers… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 6 – Monday 17 Jan

A day of many firsts. Not first time in Saint Lucia though. It’s a verdant, beautiful island, well known to many as… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 5 – Sunday 16 Jan

Poor Grenada … allegedly named by Columbus after Granada, but he couldn’t be bothered and sailed on. Then the French invaded, then… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 7 – Tuesday 18 Jan

Officially the name is Saint Christopher Island, but that’s a lot of characters so, like the UK, it has become custom and… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 8 – Wednesday 19 Jan

We’re persona non grata! More accurately, that would be navem non grata. Either way St Thomas has turned us away as we’ve… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 9 – Thursday 20 Jan

It’s our fifth sea day if one includes the self-inflicted Barbados situation. On an 11 day cruise in normal times this could… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 10 – Friday 21 Jan

All the large cruise companies have their own private island, a concept that sounds a bit Bransonesque! In many cases these are… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 11 – Saturday 22 Jan

Let’s turn that frown upside down! We start our crossover day, where the ship returns to dump the last cruise’s passengers and… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 12 – Sunday 23 Jan

It’s fortunate we did the private island last week since todays repeat visit is cancelled. In the early hours we were paralleling… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 13 – Monday 24 Jan

If one needs, in January, to swim in the British Atlantic, then surely there’s no better place than Grand Turk? We arrive… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 14 – Tuesday 25 Jan

Hispaniola is an island that isn’t terribly well known, I suppose it is analogous to the “Island of Ireland” sideways. It’s the… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 15 – Wednesday 26 Jan

Technically sea day number four, but actually number six. We start with breakfast in Club Orange, where we only go on sea… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 16 – Thursday 27 Jan

Unlike Sint Maarten in the western Leeward Islands, the three southern Leeward Antilles do not share with France. The island are collectively… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 17 – Friday 28 Jan

They, whoever “they” are, say that it’s not about the destination but about the journey. Of course, that is partial rot or… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 18 – Saturday 29 Jan

Aruba is the smallest of the ABCs but it has the same population as the largest. It’s GDP is only a little… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 19 – Sunday 30 Jan

Sea day again. Gorgeous weather so up on deck for a couple of hours, once breakfast is done.  Usual pre-lunch walk then… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 20 – Monday 31 Jan

There’s time, and there’s Caribbean time! As well as an hour of difference – the ship changed back overnight to Eastern Standard… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 21 – Tuesday 01 Feb

Turn that frown … part two! Regular readers, or at least those who read yesterday’s latter segment will know we had an… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 22 – Wednesday 02 Feb

Whilst it’s true to say we stayed at this hotel before, it was ten years ago and pre-cruise on that occasion. Having… Read more: Caribbean 2022 – Day 23 – Thursday 03 Feb