Blogs from Caribbean, Oceans and Seas - page 7

The Veendam's route is first due south from Florida to the coast of Cuba, then a leg eastward to gain the channel between Cuba and Hispanola, then south again across the Caribbean to the first port of call: Cartagena, Columbia. We receive some disappointing news: the ship's delayed arrival and departure means that one port of call has to be cut. We will not be visiting Ixatapa, Mexico. I was looking forward to a tour of the Mayan ruins there. Today is a totally relaxed day at sea. In the morning, we attend a presentation on Cartagena, focused on shopping. We spend the entire afternoon playing duplicate bridge, 10 tables. Vi is an old hand at this, but it is the first time for me. The structure of duplicate bridge is somewhat intimidating, and I don't ... read more

Having a great time on the cruise. Movies, food and mickey and new friends.... read more

Slept in later after a good night out. My cough was a little better after asking to have the AC disconnected in the room but Alex decided I should go to the onboard doctor rather than have to see one at great expense in the US. The South African doctor needed to work on nis bedside manner, maybe with so many unfit, overweight people onboard he had had his fill of sick passengers. Anyway after grilling me for taking my own antibiotics that I had with me and making me read an info sheet on antibiotic misuse, he begrudglingly gave me some medication and sent me on my way. Grabbed breakfast before they closed and spent a couple of hours at Posh before going to see the International Epic Crew show in the theatre where a ... read more

Land ahoy First time on land today as we arrived at St Maarten in the Dutch Antilles. Weather was glorious and we went ashore to meet up with Kelly and Ben to go off on a tour to a popular beach where the airplanes come on in so low you can almost touch them. Arrived at the beach, it was unbelievably crowded and very narrow. Found ouselves a tiny spot, put our towels down and our bags and a second later a huge wave washed up the beach soaking our new towels, our clothes, bag and nearly taking my flip flops! Total disaster, nowhere to sit, nothing to dry ourselves with and surrounded by people. Watching the aircraft was exciting but we wrote the rest off the morning off and headed to the bar to drown ... read more

While, it has been awhile since our last entry our lives have not been short on adventure. We have gotten ourselves into world of boating, so now we get to travel...and get paid. We have got to enjoy the Island life and fit not surprisingly very well. Most of our time has been spent living in the Virgin Islands where Stacy met the love of her life and newest member of our travel blog Chris. Next week he and I are off to tackle South America.... read more

Day 2 - DAY AT SEA So this day Avi and I woke up feeling pretty refreshed. I believe we slept in a little bit, around 8:30 or 9 or so . We got our bathing suits on I got my little pool bag packed with a book and our sunblock, etc. The book of choice on this trip was Eat, Pray, Love. I've seen the movie about a MILLION times, and I tried reading the book once, but don't even think I got 100 pages in before I had other priorities and abandoned ship (no pun intended). But I wanted to actually finish it this time, and what better time to read about traveling adventures, than when I'm actually on my own travel adventure myself. I didn't even really bother to put sunscreen on this ... read more