After staying on board for the Dominican Republic stop, I thought we might disembark at either St. Maarten or Martinique. Because of the timing of the stops, both were nighttime/evening, my thoughts of hopping off and swimming in the Caribbean were thwarted. Besides that, the ports were the large cities of each island which meant a significant taxi to any decent beach. It would have been nearly dark on our arrival there so not worth the effort.
If that sounds bad I have to let you know that I'm a funny cruiser. I actually love being on the boat more than the port stops. SO, my favorite parts of the cruise are the days in port when we stay on board and have the run of the ship while light on passengers and the 7 straight days at sea. The Transatlantic crossing, which is the remainder of this cruise other than a stop in Horta in the Azores and at Gibraltar, will take us the next 10 days. During that time we are nearly 'unplugged', there's no phone service (that is not unreasonably expensive), superslow limited Internet at .30-.55Eurocents a minute, no TV really to speak of. Although we did watch a couple of silly action films that we hadn't seen yet, The Equalizer and Edge of Tomorrow.
I've finished a silly mystery, Aunt Dimity's Good Deed and Wicked, which I really enjoyed, and no, I've never seen the movie or play). I'm just starting a Neal Stephenson now.
We've spent time on deck, in the pool and hot tub, playing the games we brought along in the card room, eating a bit too well and scouring the ship in search of danceable music but finding more Latin options than anything else.
So you can see we are having a nice relaxing time. With the ridiculous low fare on this cruise we are arriving in Europe well rested, without jetlag and for the same, or less than airfare would have been. The fancy coffee drinks are even free so I'm not quite sure what we will spend our on board credit on.
I will report back once we've been to the Azores as this post pretty well sums up the rest of the cruise ship time.
Hugs,
Dana
Ps. Sarah A the windblown pic with umbrella fancy drink was just for you...am I properly on vacation now?
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