Saturday 13^th April – Day at Sea.

Nesta continued with her art classes and medicine… The lectures are not very inspiring so far on this cruise so we had a quiet day.

The sea was calm, though, and the weather hot and sunny – so could have been worse!

The “old lags” quiz team failed to win the quiz again, must be something to do with the fact that alcohol wasn’t the prize!

 

Sunday 14^th April – Nassau, Bahamas.

We were dwarfed at the quay by three other “monster” cruise ships. The bad news was that there were lots of mainly American tourists in town – the good news was that at least Nassau was open! (Editor’s note: Please see all the other times we have arrived on a Sunday to find everything shut!)

We had a wander round and actually managed to do most of the sights on foot. We also stocked up on Nesta’s medicine in the local duty-free, so we should be ok now for the Atlantic crossing!

We had intended to catch the local ferry over to Paradise Island but having seen the massive hotels/casinos etc. decided to give it a miss.

Managed to buy a T-shirt for Kevin’s birthday which had the slogan “Talk like a sailor. Drink like a fish”. Hope he likes it… at worst he can wear it in his garden in Skye!

We went to the church service in the evening and later didn’t manage to win the quiz again!! As the prizes were a torch and a cotton bag, though, we didn’t mind too much. We have, after all, got enough of both to open a stall on Portsmouth harbour!

 Can you see our ship? If you look hard enough you can make out the top of the funnel over the building to the right of the big ones!!

                    The Supreme Courthouse, Nassau... Thought it looked grand!