Wednesday 19th – Friday 21st December – Bridgetown, Barbados.

 

Strong winds overnight led to a rocky trip with not enough sleep.  Still Barbados is worth it and our favourite island to date.  Did Coast to Coast half day tour.   Enjoyed celebrating Kay’s birthday with champagne, expensive wine and port after our posh meal.

 

Thursday and end of first cruise.  Had a fabulous morning.  Took a taxi with our new found friends to Carlisle bay and finally swam in the Caribbean!  Patrick and Helene’s friend, Neville took us out about 200yards from shore and I snorkelled and swam with green turtles.  Managed to get Skype to work and spoke to our three girls – brilliant to see them.  Boys both working so will have to try again soon.   At 2.30 all our friends left and at 5.30 the new passengers arrived.  Lots more people to get to know now.

 East coast of Barbados - no need for the shades yet!

 Finally... a foot in the Caribbean

 Bathsheba, Barbados

 Ian swimming in the Caribbean with Tom, Fred, Anne, Helene and Patrick

 An impromptu boat trip to swim with turtles

The zoom on the camera is good - Ian was on the beach when he took this!



Well - that's the end of our first cruise.....

The "b" word still hasn't been used. We really like Barbados, so look out for more on our blog on "Gems of the Caribbean" starting Friday 21st December.....