When we got up this morning at eight o’clock, we found that the Queen Victoria was already docked in Gibraltar. We had been to this British overseas territory twice before, in 1995 and 1999 so we looked forward to renewing our acquantance of this little piece of Britain abroad. We didn’t have an excursion booked…
We woke up at 7.10am to the usual euphoric feeling of being on holiday in the amazing sunny Caribbean on the good ship Braemar. Looking out of our portholes, we saw that we were just coming into the port of St. John’s, Antigua, where we’ve visited twice before; on the Arcadia in 2005 and last…
We woke up this morning around 7.30am and looked out of our portholes to see that the Braemar was already docked up in Castries, its capital. Across the harbour we saw the massive, ugly-looking P & O ship Britannia; in fact it was moored up where we normally have been on previous visits to St….
We were up again early this morning, and we went straight out onto the balcony to have a look around. We were docked in Fort-de-France, principal town in Martinique, which is one of France’s overseas départements. Once again it was a new port of call for us, and today we were booked on the full day…
This morning we woke up in St. John’s, the capital of Antigua. We had been here once before, in 2005 on the Arcadia, so today we were not going on an organised tour, but were rather doing our own thing. When we looked out on our balcony, all we could see was what appeared to…
We were up early again this morning, in time to see the Adonia dock in Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Gaudeloupe is one of the French overseas départements and it looked quite a well-developed port, from what we could see from our vantage point on after breakfast on Deck 9. The currency here is the Euro. We disembarked…
Got up early this morning in a new port of call that we hadn’t visited before, that of Basseterre, capital of St Kitts. From our balcony we looked out to see an island that appeared hilly, with lots of green and lush trees and vegetation. Today we were going to explore some of the rainforest…
Today the Ventura docked in the port of Philipsburg, the Dutch capital of St Maarten. St Martin/Sint Maarten is half French and half Dutch so it is one of the Caribbean’s most interesting and diverse islands. We had been here once before in 2005, on a cruise on the Arcadia, so instead of going on one of the organised…
Today the Ventura was docked in Grand Turk, the largest of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Last time we had been here was in 2009, on the Artemis so it was a familiar view that met us when we looked out from our balcony. The whole island is only six miles long and has a long pier…
Thursday, 17 February 2011 – my 50th birthday! I can now go on Saga holidays, ha ha (as if!!) 😀 We were woken at 7:10am by the sound of cruise director Ricky’s voice bellowing over the tannoy, announcing that the Braemar was alongside in Bridgetown, Barbados. We got up and went out on the balcony…
