Valley Creek Hotel & Fitness Centre St. John's

... which is where the locals and expats hang out), but we mostly ate on board. The best dining experience was suggested by our hashing friend Will. This place was called Flavour's Café and was off the main road into town up a very steep hill (one of those you have to walk up backwards). We called in advance to order lobster and arrived for the sunset. It was quite basic but Julia, the owner, served us callaloo soup (like spinach except that if you don't cook it a minimum of 15 ...

Sunday 05/04/09 St Johns - Antigua Temps Air 28°C Sea 27°C Our berth once again is ideally placed being right alongside the city's main waterfront, straight off the ship to the many bars & cafes. Although it's Sunday the place is already humming as already berthed is the Holland-America Lines ship Maarsdam, and 15 minutes after our arrival the Fred Olsen Lines Booddica arrived and there's another due in later in the day We'd ...

Dear Blog,

Another day, another adventure. We arrived at Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda at 8:00am this morning. Today promises to be a beautiful warm and exciting day as the sun is already rising along the island and showing off its bright golden rays.

Antigua boasts one of the Caribbean's most spectacular coastlines with secluded coves and beaches. The capital is St. John's and approximately 70,000 people live on the island. The official ...

... kastelen. Eigenaren zijn vrijwel nooit aan boord en dus heeft de crew het rijk alleen. De verdiensten blijken ook erg aantrekkelijk. Wij besluiten onze vrijheid toch maar niet voor op te geven voor een luxe leventje op de boot van een ander. We kiezen voor een deelname aan de Valentine Regatta aan boord van een Swan 38. Dat bleek later wel nodig ook want samen met de stuurman en een bevriende tactieker zijn we de enigen die zich echt uitsloven om iets te gaan winnen. 4 ...

... hoping to make a few dollars off of us tourists. Later in the day, we took a tour of the island and saw two gorgeous beaches: Dickinson and Runaway. Antigua is the larger island of the two island nation of Antigua and ...

Let me start by saying - I apologize for the delay in posting - we came home on Sat 28th to no A/C (with out of state family in town) were home for three days before taking our girls to the mountains - just returning this afternoon. Probably should have flip flopped the trips - my hubby kept saying - this is just not Antigua - hmm....14 family members in a condo with kids ...

... An hour later, had had followed me to the shuttle pick up, just to wish me a great vacations time. Ahead of the shuttle, I got to chat with a few locals, about their way of life; they don't pay a lot of tax compared to us, about 2%, yet they have to pay for most services that a freely given in my country. Kindergarden is $500 monthly, primary school is $2300 per three months ...

... who went out missing in action. I've seen her last night taking off with an American from Detroit, Michigan. She took off on Winston, so he has decided to take after me............no thanks, after a few polite excuses, he's still following me around like a little puppy, so I stayed in hiding most of the remaining evening in order to escape the pretentious guy. I refuse to get involved in that episode. I need my bed anyhow, my donkey-day had tired the hell out of me!

... in frustration. The swimmer grabbed the anchor chain (apparently it had sheared its chain) and was holding onto the line Al threw out. Al knew that they could not tie off the chain well enough to tow the yacht and it was now within 30 feet of the rocks. Luckily my calling out to neighbors produced two more dinghies (a Fold-A-Boat with a quirky engine and a Sunsail charterer) that managed to push the yacht from its sides while the swimmer climbed aboard and hooked our line to ...

... 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.