Peter's Travel Blog

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 –...

This was the awesome sunset we enjoyed just a couple of nights ago. It was accompanied by the ‘Beaver Supermoon’ at the rear of the ship. We’re currently five days into a seven-day crossing of the Atlantic ocean. Classes are going well and the weather and sea swells are improving daily. There isn’t a lot of wildlife to be seen...