Peter's Travel Blog

This morning, I painted a couple of monkeys from Iles Du Salut, whilst catching up on the BBC Kermode and Mayo Film Show podcasts, which I downloaded in Castries (Hello to Jason Isaacs…). In the classes this afternoon, I had them all painting an Iguana, the results of which were particularly impressive. Other than that, it’s been an unextraordinary day....

It’s been yet another regulation, no-frills sea-day, where nothing much really happened. No time change last night, so I was up at the proper time, worked on Online Students in the morning, then took classes all afternoon (thankfully, no piped music). Today, it was Line and Wash, which everyone seemed to enjoy, and managed to make a good job of;...

Guess who forgot to put their clocks forward one hour… I was sat working in the cabin, at what I thought was 11am, when the Captain’s voice came drifting over the airwaves with his noonday announcement. I thought it strange that he’d decided to give us his ‘positional report’ earlier than usual; it wasn’t until the ‘ting-ting’ of whatever it...

Today, we arrived at our final Caribbean port, Bridgetown, in Barbados. Again, I hadn’t been given any tour escort duty, so I had the day to myself. The answer to the question; what does one do in Barbados when one has nothing else pressing?… is, let’s face it, a bit of a no-brainer. Answer; go looking for a beach… Having...

Today, we arrived in Castries, on the island of St Lucia… and I didn’t have tour duty!! For once, I had a whole day to do whatever I wanted… lurrrvly! Over breakfast, I discussed plans for the day with Neil and Louise; the only thing I really wanted to do, above all else, was to have a swim in the...