I ended up in the coffee shop for 40 minutes, quickly catching up on the news, email, some other stuff. Started to organise people dancing the first weekend I’m back, found out someone else is also trying to get a party going at the same place. Excellent! 🙂 The coffee shop did not reflect the […]

I saw a lot of American school children today. Mainly because I was off the ship and walking past their school into their residential areas while they were heading to a day in class. As America goes St Thomas looks poor and run down. Chickens roam free while small dogs yap behind fences. I want […]

It’s the day before the second Test in Antigua, and there are three cruise ships in port. So local services and sights will be under siege from the usual horde of old wealthy people but this time supplemented by inevitably inebriated cricket fans. As the P&O cruise ship entered the harbour I was again bemused […]

The weather got no better. I spent the day watching the Brexit debate in parliament via text updates and catching up on some of the web searches I’d had to delay. I can confirm that I wont be participating in Fibonacci February, which you may want to avoid reading about while at work. Or indeed, […]

It’s a bit weird being in the Caribbean and France at the same time. It’s also a source of great comedy. Caribbean France is still full of people with obnoxious accents, less friendly than any of their neighbouring countries, selling food that’s pitifully overrated. In fairness Martinique does have one major advantage over the rest […]

For the second morning in a row I’m up eight minutes before my alarm is due to go off. My body seems to be adjusting itself nearer to UK time, a week before I get home. It is just a week now too, and although it’s a week with a Caribbean holiday to enjoy I’m […]

Back on the ship my glasses died, an arm falling off completely. I shrugged, swapped them for the other pair, kept going. Heading to find coffee my right knee died too, luckily not falling off completely. The 5km walk around town hadn’t seemed to hurt it so perhaps it was the added turn resistance from […]

Having been welcomed by my phone to St Kitts and Nevis last night I was this morning welcomed to Jamaica. If only this cruise went to either. Instead I stood in the rain on deck and watched us reverse into Castries, a town in St Lucia. An hour later, I got off the ship. It […]

Being woken by my alarm from a very deep sleep isn’t a problem, just a surprise at gone 7am. Just ten days before I reach the UK isn’t the time to finally adjust to American East coast time. We’re an hour ahead of that, and the skies are already blue as we pull into the […]

My final laundry trip of the trip, clean clothes enough now to last until I get home. A walk to find coffee and a cricket score. Should’ve kept to the coffee. On deck the wind proves the foolishness of venturing out with hair still wet from my morning shower and I sit in one of […]