Category: Amazon, Caribbean and Azores

Today, after a full day at sea (Tuesday), we arrived in Grenada – The Spice Island.   We weren’t due to arrive until lunchtime, so I did a little painting in the morning, then, just before lunch, we held an art materials sale in the Art and Craft Room. A large amount of art materials, including several kits of paints...

Today, we arrived in Iles Due Salut, better known as the infamous French penal colony of Devil’s Island, made famous by the book ‘Papillon’, by Henri Charriere, and, later, the film starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. Actually, there are three islands here; Iles Royale, Iles St Joseph, and Illes du Diablo. The island we were visiting was Iles Royale,...

Not a great deal happened today; we’ve left Brazil behind and are now heading for French Guyana. Watercolour classes have resumed, and I’m using every available spare minute to paint in the cabin. So far, I’ve completed 10 new original paintings, featuring boats and stilt houses from Boca Do Valeria and Lake Maica, a couple from The Cape Verde Islands,...

The delights of Alter De Chao (pronounced, we think, chow) were always going to be a hard act to follow. Because of the change to local laws imposed upon us by the Brazilian Authorities (something about having to be in Santana between two daytime high tides), we’d already lost Almeirim, and were destined to arrive in Santana at 2:30 on...

We love this place!   It’s often described as ‘The Caribbean of The Amazon’, where amazonians come to swim and chill on a weekend.   It’s a weekday today, so the village is quiet, but for Marco Polo passengers meandering around. One of the best things about the place?…. Free Wi-Fi!! Yeeeeey!   So; this is a quick post, just...