City View Hotel & Restaurant St. John's

... for commercial ones so we had the roads mostly to ourselves. And no hassle whatsoever, with the locals knocking on our boat offering to clean our boat. So we give full marks to Les Saintes.   Guadeloupe -   Although Guadeloupe is quite a big island, we decided not to explore its interior. Apart from the strike and racial strife that just ended, it doesn't lend itself so easily to the cruiser as its ports are spread out and we didn't feel like hiring a car and exploring. So we ...

... our route around some of the islands beaches we took in Half Moon Bay which is, well you just run out of adjectives after a while, but it's a beautiful sight. The trip was rounded off by a swimming stop in Long Bay Beach, just beeeeaaaautiful. After a fairly long and bumpy journey to just jump into the beautiful azure blue seas of the Caribbean was just perfict, just pirfict man. All good things come to and end and all too soon we ...

... was built in 1725 and served as a base for the English naval squadron patrolling the West Indies. After a short informative walk with the guide, we were able to tour the entire dockyard on our own. This proved to be quite interesting and beautiful pictures were taken once again. After the tour, we enjoyed our free time to explore the mall museum, art gallery, gift shop and boutiques. We were also served a complimentary drink prior to our departure ...

... ENGLISH: Firtly the morning spent in shooting gangway, then 2 hours off. What should I do in those 2 hours? 4 of us went out - me, Annie from China, Ben and ROnnie from Phillipines. The sky was just clearing up after the summer rain shower. In the main side walk we bumped into our training development manager - Alan and his wife - Wendy. Alan had provided the other day the best cultural differences training I`ve ever participated to. I ...

Today we arrived in St. John's, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda. We debarked the ship and walked a bit until we reached what seemed to be some sort of plaza, where a local was balancing a pineapple on her head while grooving to ...

The next port of call on this cruise was the island of Antigua in the capital city of St. John. Antigua, along with the nearby island of Barbuda, make up the independent country of Antigua and Barbuda. Today, we were lucky enough to have a bit of a sleep in as our excursion for the day didn't start until 9am. Initially, our plan was to do the Black Swan Pirate Ship excursion which consisted of a cruise around the harbor in Saint John, a mock pirate ship battle, as well ...

... off at Shirley Heights with an all-welcome barbecue and then continue on with drinking and dancing to live local music late into the evening. Well-known celebrities can often be seen mingling with the tourists. I have crossed paths with Eric Clapton once there myself. The people, music, food, drinks and incredible view of the Harbor make Shirley Heights another Antigua "must see"! I have just touched on Antigua's magnificent history. If you desire more, I highly recommend a visit ...

... the same place for a few weeks, and flew home to visit with our kids. Going from 85-90 degrees to 15-30 degrees was challenging, but well worth it to me. Ten days didn't give me nearly as much time as I would have wanted to visit with the kids and my friends, but after being within 50 feet of Chris for seven months, I missed him more than I would have thought and was ready to get back to our floating home. These two men just ...

... so much sea action that we had worked to an angle that we were able to lift it. With great relief we sailed back to Road Bay for another great lobster dinner at Roy's. We wanted to get back to Marigot for New Year's Eve (Old Year's Night here) because we remembered the fabulous fireworks from a New Year's Eve in the 90s. We dined aboard and eagerly awaited the show. We saw fireworks over in Anguilla to the north), in Phillipsburg to the south, from some of the hotels on the ...

... dish, and that we are not leaving without a proper meal.



Well, an hour later, and we are indeed enjoying a proper lunch - at least we weren't fooled!!







We have to return back to the ship as soon as we finish lunch, and we are to be carried to the last but most beautiful Island of all.