Christopher David
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Sea days and Reunion
The child, the cyclone and Reunion Island Saturday 31st January – pm – Port Elizabeth, South Africa There’s a child on board!! This is advertised as an adult cruise. He’s about 5 or 6 and I can only assume he’s the son of a crew member … if that’s the case he should be confined to
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Port Elizabeth & the Game Drive
Port Elizabeth & the Game Drive We finally made it round the tip of Africa and the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean; apparently sea life will be more plentiful in these waters but we’ve not seen anything further yet. The sea is definitely bluer though! 🙂 Anywhere the begins it’s town name
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Namibia, lost in the cyberspace wilderness and Cape Town
Namibia, lost in cyberspace and Cape Town Monday 19th January – sea day We saw dolphins today! No proof obviously, they’re far too quick to be caught with a camera but we definitely saw them. Captain says he’s seen a whale but we think he’s delirious 😁 Retrieved our passports from the batch Senegalese immigration
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Africa
Dakar, Senegal, West Africa Even though it’s the capital of Senegal, it is everything we expected an African nation to be; dominated by males, very pushy stall holders, appalling road structure and nothing to see … each ‘taxi driver’ promised to take us to ‘the monument’ which we’d seen on the Port Guide was a
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Cape Verde – Day 2
Cape Verde – Day 2 … or not! Hmm – Day 2, Praia, capital of the Cape Verde islands – didn’t happen. We were supposed to take on a pilot at around 6am but by 7.30am we were still sailing at a fair clip. Good old Captain Chris (who looks rather like our son-in-law Joseph
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Cape Verde – Day 1
Cape Verde – St Vincent Overall impression? It’ll be lovely when it’s finished! Through my spoiled first world eyes it seems to be quite a poor nation, certainly in the area we strolled through. There were lots of street vendors selling the catch of the day whether that was some very pungent coriander by the
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Sea day & Madeira
Sea day and Madeira We found Madeira an odd place; everything is clinging to a hill, and they’re not shy about leaning further and further out. It’s a Sunday in January so the town was fairly deserted but sadly we didn’t find anything that we thought was worth hopping off the bus for. The good
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Day 3
Dead Man’s bingo.| OK, admit it, who had Day 3? We watched as the ship sail under the Ponte 25 de Abril bridge this morning before docking is Lisbon at about 8am. The first time we’ve been still for three days. Armed with coffee we stepped out onto the balcony and as we were starboard