Category: Amazon, Caribbean and Azores

We’re back at sea, and now heading in a North-Easterly direction, towards the Azores, where we expect to arrive in 5 days time. So far, it’s been a bit of a bumpy ride; it seems folks have got used to not having to deal with the movement of the ship. Tracey is definitely not liking the rocking of the ship...

Today, we arrived at our final Caribbean destination, St Johns, Antigua. We were on tour escorting duties, but on different tours; Tracey would be Kayaking, while I would be visiting the historic Nelson’s Dockyard. There was a short delay in berthing alongside the quay and setting up the gangway. A further, minor, delay was because we were waiting to be...

Today, we arrived in Castries, the capital of St Lucia. Our escorting duties today were on a tour titled ‘Land and Sea to the Pitons’, which meant being on the quayside at 8:3am. Our tour buses were the small 22-seater coaches – more minibuses really – typical, it seems, throughout the Caribbean. It was a long tour, but actually quite...

Today, we arrived in Bridgetown, Barbados. With no tour escorting duties to fulfill (because we’d specifically asked not to be given them here), we had the whole day to ourselves. Not that our aspirations were in any way grand. Far from it… In the morning, after a leisurely breakfast, we headed ashore to make use of the free wi-fi in...

Today, we arrived in St Georges, the capital of the island of Grenada… The Spice Isle. We were originally due to dock by the quayside, but a couple of days ago, the Captain announced that, due to circumstances outside the Magellan’s control, despite everything having been agreed long ago, our place would be taken by the Royal Caribbean, a huge...