30th January At last a trip out

 


Here we are in St Kitts, famous for..uhm hang it will come to me, its on the tip of my tongue, give me a moment. No sorry I can't recall what its famous for. But it did seem to like out of commission red telephone boxes and compared to all of the places we have been too so far with the exception of San Juan, did have a bit of life about it with a well developed port area and a busy(er) town centre.

Today was our first and perhaps only organised trip of the 14 day cruise with a 3 hour trip round the island in a convoy of three open sided buses that carried 20 passengers each. It was fun fun way to explore the island with Cooper, our driver /guide seemingly intent on naming every parish we drive through and every building we passed by.


Was it better or worse than the two trips we did last year in Bonaire and Antigua, it's difficult to say as a year helps to erase the not so good bits from previous trips. But we had some good photo opportunities at Romney Manor with its beautiful gardens (we saw more plants here than in Roseau's botanical gardens) and batique making workshop. Black Rocks showed where the lava flow had entered the sea in dramatic fashion and then we finished with the St Kitt's tourist poster view from Timothy Hill.

Tonight in a change from the usual musical numbers we had a comedian in the Broadway show lounge, Steve Royal, (3rd place in BGT 2020). I thought he was very funny, especially his routine about fulfilling his dreams of being a ventriloquist during Covid with his threadbare puppet called Manky Monkey. TOM on the other hand thought he was pathetic. Read into that what you will but it's perhaps a sign of the times or at least the point we are at in this particular floating fantasy. 




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