Peter's Travel Blog

Today we had our first full day at sea, which meant work for me, and the first of my watercolour classes. It was all a little bit of a shambles on account of there not being enough art kits to go round. This is unfortunate, to say the least, and entirely out of my hands; needless to say, I’ve said...

At around 7:30am, this morning, the ship returned to the quayside in Manta. As we hadn’t been assigned any tour escorting duties today, our choice of activities were our own, so we decided we’d take the free shuttle bus into town and head for the beach. When we walked down onto the quayside from the gangway, the first thing we...

After the long day yesterday, I was looking forward to a nice, slow, relaxing day today. We both slept like logs and rose just before 8am feeling refreshed and totally relaxed. After a leisurely breakfast, we headed upstairs to the Sun Deck to enjoy whatever the port had to offer. Giuyaquil Port is some distance from the bustling city centre....