Nesta and Ian's Travels

Saturday 6^th April – Day at Sea.

Went to Air Marshall Sir Christopher Coville’s lecture on the Red Arrows, whom he commanded on two separate occasions. It was very informative and interesting and didn’t pull any punches especially when he was talking about their two recent tragedies.

As Nesta hasn’t been herself for a number of days, she went to see the doctor (well, actually the doctor rang her in our cabin! Think that maybe Mary had had a word). His diagnosis… she should smoke less and drink more wine! We therefore obliged by going to both sessions of the Captain’s farewell party…

Sunday 7^th April – Montego Bay, Jamaica.

We docked at 9am and as we remembered that Montego Bay itself is not very nice we just went for a stroll round the terminal building. For the rest of the day we just stayed on board and had a thoroughly relaxing time.

In the evening we had our final game of “marathon” with Andrew and Alison (they go home tomorrow) and Nesta followed doctors’ orders and increased her wine intake!

The entertainment this evening included Bogdan (the pianist in the Classical Duo) singing and playing Elvis Presley blues songs! He was fantastic!

Nesta slept quite well until 4am when she was woken up convinced that the ship was moving… fortunately, it wasn’t!

Monday 8^th April – Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Happy birthday Graeme J

We had a nice day. Went off in a taxi with Austin, Glynis, Richard and Lin and our first stop was a bird sanctuary. We were allowed to feed the humming birds and Nesta actually had them sitting on her finger!

We then travelled the 70 kilometres to Negril Beach were it rained!! Highlight of the day was jerk burger and chips in a beachside restaurant (nice to get plain food once in a while!)

Nesta went for a swim in the Caribbean – in the rain – and we then went back to the ship.

The new passengers had arrived by the time we got back and the ship is totally full for what will be our ninth and last cruise back to Portsmouth… L