Category: Cruises

I think it’s fair to say that, by this point in our adventure, we were starting to feel somewhat snorkelled-out. Since Basseterre, on the island of St Kitts, didn’t have a convenient nearby beach, we decided to take things a little easier today, and go for a walk. Our general policy is ‘see a hill… climb it…’, and from the...

Today we arrived in Road Town in Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, alongside Cunard’s ‘Queen Elizabeth’. As we had a tour booked for the afternoon, we opted for a simple walk in the morning, which took us to a small park alongside the bay. There wasn’t a lot there; a couple of pergolas and one of those giant multi-coloured...

Today we arrived in Willemstad on the Dutch island of Curacao, alongside a massive Carnival cruise ship. We’ve been here before, and seen the town and interesting swing bridge, so as the bulk of passengers turned right towards the town centre, we turned left, towards a beach we’d spotted on Maps.Me. Our route took us past a mangrove swamp, which...

Today we arrived in Castries on the island of St Lucia. We were berthed on the town side of the bay; across from the main cruise terminal, where we could see Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth was parked. We had originally planned to go on the jungle aerial tram excursion but it got cancelled because of storm damage. So we did what...

Today, finally, after seven days at sea, we arrived at our first Caribbean port of call, Bridgetown, in Barbados. On our last visit here, over Christmas and the New Year, we were amazed to find ourselves the only ship in port. It wasn’t quite that quiet today, but there was only one other ship in port (a Regent ship –...