Category: Amazon, Caribbean and Azores

We’ve been watching the navigational charts that are posted daily by the Shorex desk with interest, and a certain amount of growing trepidation. The charts show different colours, referring to approximate wave height. Blue represents flat sea; green represents waves of just a few feet; purple means they are getting much higher, and represents the kind of rolling sea that...

This morning, our second day at sea since leaving Barbados, the Captain announced that due to the prevailing current slowing us down, we won’t be visiting Horta. Instead, we will be heading straight to Ponta Delgarda, the second of our Azores stops (now the only one). Naturally, this is a little disappointing; I quite like Horta, but we have a...

Today we’ve been back at sea, and my painting classes have resumed in earnest, and with full, enthusiastic attendance. It’s a long haul to our next port-of-call, with 4 more days after this one before we are due to arrive at Horta in the Azores. Unfortunately, the ship has been rockin’ an’ rollin’, with quite a hefty swell; not enough...

Today, we arrived at our final port on the Caribbean leg of our voyage; Bridgetown, in Barbados. We’ve been here several times before, and knew long before we got here that we really didn’t want any tour escorting duties. Our plans were diabolically simple… find a beach… The cruise terminal in Bridgetown is always a busy place. With Fred Olsen’s...

Today, we arrived in Castries, St Lucia. Once again, we hadn’t been assigned any tour escorting duties (yeeeey!), so we had the whole day to ourselves. After having a leisurely breakfast, we began our day in Castries, by taking a walk around the town. Once we’d fought our way through the enthusiastic, but slightly annoying, taxi drivers, all telling us...