Waking up on our first morning aboard, we hadn’t even had time to digest our first banquet, let alone our thoughts, and we were already at our first destination. The previous few nights roughing it in a tent contrasted so markedly with the onslaught of rich food and warm fluffy duvets that we emerged a little later than planned from our air-conditioned cabin, sauntering out into the full glare of the midday sun and down one of the many boardwalks serving the cruise ships that towered overhead, toward a brightly-colored parody of colonial Caribbean architecture. Life quayside at St John’s, Antigua, gives just enough of a feeling you’re exploring somewhere new to make it seem adventurous, when in reality you’re captive in a one-stop shopping mall, complete with diamond shops and casinos. No surprise then, that
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