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St Lucia And Her Pitons Charm Us.
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... are dramatically steep towers of rock jutting out of the sea.
We chose to book an excursion for this port of call that took us by land through to the southern port of Soufriere where our cruise ship would sail to meet us at the end of the tour. We were glad we did as so many of her charms were shown to us. We learnt about her exports of sugar, cocoa, and bananas and travelled through picturesque and mountainous jungle scenery with the famous ...
Exploring the Caribbean the easy way -on a cruise
... to her cabin.
The two barmen did a bottle juggling routine, as in the movie Cocktail, only dropped a few. The highlight was setting up 5 glasses at different heights, and pouring into them from 5 stacked cocktail shakers, without spilling a drop. Unfortunately we didn’t take our camera with us.
This activity destroyed the rest of the afternoon, but we managed to get into our good gear and saw most of the 7 PM Variety Show with ...
Soufriere
... finished of the bread with some cold cuts and had the raisin biscuit for desert then watched a bit of TV and read in bed. There was an interesting show on the National Geographic channel about the burial of Jesus and what was likely to have happened to his body after the crucifixion. Finally – an alcohol free day!
Slept in until 9am, then asked Shalma at the front desk (who has been very helpful assisting me with bookings and confirmations in the absence of a phone ...
The last few days x
As we still had the car we drove down to Castries to get some prezzies. As we drove in we saw 3 enormous cruise ships in and lines of taxis taking the posh peeps off to see the island. We parked up in the multi-storey but then by the time we came out it was chucking it down. We had a wander around the market which was rapidly flooding and priced up some bits. When we asked the price they gave it to us in US dollars. It was then that ...
St Lucia
... in case they sail without you.
We had a lovely scenic sail away hugging the coast and they opened up the bow so we could get a better view. Sailed down to the south and stopped just off the pitons for a narration on the island. Tai chi on deck then back to the cabin to wait for the last few guests who did the full island tour to be tendered back on board. It was a spectacular setting and as the sun went down we saw the star clipper leaving port ...
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