Christopher David
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Blighty
Blighty! If you’d removed my sense of direction completely, I would have known that I’d woken up in England this morning! However, I was ultra-glad to be home. It’s been an epic trip … the countries we’ve visited, the experiences we’ve had, the people we’ve met and our cabin steward, Christopher, deserves a special mention
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Last stop The Azores, Ponta Delgarda
Last stop The Azores, Ponta Delgarda Ponta Delgarda Another surprise, but having no preconceptions, a pleasant one. A bunch of small islands, collectively known as the Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic, we landed on the largest island, Sao Miguel. The cruise terminal spilled straight into the town centre and was easy walking. A
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Curacao
Curacao We were completely open-minded about Curacao, we had no pre-conceived ideas and at the last minute had decided to do a “highlights & lagoon” sightseeing trip. We weren’t disappointed. The island is split into distinctive areas because of the geography, the north of the island is all rocky coastline, spectacular blow holes and crashing
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Panama Canal
Panama So, the Panama Canal was on my bucket list and it didn’t disappoint. I don’t know why I found it exciting but that’s just the way I roll 😊 It’s a much more urban city than I was expecting. We were entering from the Pacific Ocean, in which we had spent six weeks travelling
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Mexico
Manzanillo (pronounced Manzaneeyo), Mexico We’ve made cruise stops at some of the more touristy places in Mexico but Manzanillo was somewhere I’d never heard of. It’s very small, very ‘local’ and apparently the sailfish capital of the world … so much so that there is a massive blue statue on the bay waterfront in case
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Well, there’s not a lot to say about Los Angeles except that it’s full of things you recognise from the movies but have never seen in real life, everything seems very familiar. Without the glitz and glamour of the red carpet it’s a bit of a seedy place really, quite tacky. However, our
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Sea Days and San Francisco
Sea days and San Francisco The Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is mind-bogglingly huge. From New Zealand it rolls on and on and doesn’t stop until the west coast of America … ish 😊 In comparison to the size of the ocean, there are a couple of small islands dotted here and there … Fiji
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Hawaii
Hawaii Well, our heroic Captain managed to get us into Honolulu today. The pilot boarded at 5.45am and we were berthed by 7am … in pouring pouring pouring rain! As I mentioned before, we’ve been so lucky with the weather, we couldn’t really complain. As we came off the ocean we passed Waikiki beach with
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Fiji and the South Pacific
Fiji & the South Pacific I can’t help singing “I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair” in my head when I hear the words “South Pacific”! Hmmm … Fiji, difficult to describe. I think it best to say that unless I was on a 5* hotel compound with white sand and crystal-clear sparkling