Guatemala, Puerto Quetzal Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 Terry is off to get our pre-breakfast coffee; I am slowly packing for a L-O-N-G day. We leave the ship at 9:30 for an hour and half commented drive to Antigua, an old colonial capital. We then tour the town on our own for 3 and a half hours and return to the ship by 4, in time for trivia and another win! Puerto Quetzal is a secure working major port and we can’t walk inside the port or to anywhere from it, therefore we are going on an excursion to Antigua. We are back; Terry says he will never go on a long bus ride excursion ever again. It was worth it, we will never see Antigua again. It is an old colonial town, in bad repair, like ... read more

Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica April 21st, 2013 We arrived at 7 this morning and we are leaving at 4:30, in ½ an hour. When we leave on tours early in the morning we pre-order breakfast, it was delivered at 6; because we gained an hour last night and we went to bed early, Terry had already brought down coffee from the Lido restaurant to our room. We boarded our bus at 7:20 for a 40 minutes drive to the Tarcoles River where we saw many birds (including Macaw), many crocodiles and lovely sunshine. From this 1hour boat trip, we traveled on the bus for ½ an hour to the Carara Reserve National Park where we embarked on an aerial tramway and climbed over 1000 meters through rain and shine in a tropical forest, we saw monkeys, ... read more

Day at sea Thursday, April 18, 2013 Holland America cruise line Tonight is a formal night, Terry and I are dressing up and hopefully looking forward to steak and lobster; show at 7, dinner at 8 and anniversary bal at 10:30. A typical day at sea for moi is as follow: 7:45 glass of freshly squeezed orange juice 8 am tai chi 8:30 Terry joins me for breakfast( I have Muesli and apples with apricots and coffee) 9 aquafit 9:30-11 I talked with a lady from Vancouver in the pool 11 part II of the Panama canal lesson 12 lunch with Terry( I had garlic spaghetti and Ceasar salad and cold tea) 1 Trivia in the crows nest, level 12- we have won 5 pins Break 3:30 to 5 talk by the captain: Albert Scheelsbook? 140 ... read more

Curaçao, Dutch Antilles Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Arrived at 8, enjoyed the sailing, lovely, colourful and prosperous A governor had migraines, decided that the whitewash was the reason for his problems and made a law that all the buildings had to be “not white”; imagine lovely Dutch buildings in pastel colours all different, lovely. Curacao is built on 2 sides of a small harbor with a floating pontoon moveable bridge. We are docked between these old and new sides within short walking distance of the pedestrian pontoon bridge. We walked the old side for an hour this morning, came home for a drink, I had to drown ¾ of a liter of lemon tea and wash some clothes: very hot. Terry is reading Shibumi for a little break( thank you MF). We are going back out ... read more

Friday March 12th, 2010 Fly out from Ottawa to Frankfurt Saturday March 13th, 2010 Transfer to Cannes, lovely view of the snowy Alps Arrive a 10 am, tired, lovely spring weather Bus 98 from the airport to Promenade des Anglais, riverfront Cannes, walk to the Westminster, 5th floor, our home for 2 days, balcony on the sea, nosy with waves and cars We had a 3 hour nap and went to walk the Promenade, I went up town to buy rose wine- made from Grenache grapes, some Salade Niçoise and onion bread which tasted like fish, everything here does! Early to bed Sunday March 14th, Nice I enjoy the Hop On, Hop Off bus, so that was the plan for today, but the French are running the Paris- Nice 10 day bicycle race and all the ... read more