Just like busses, holiday challenges come in threes! Our Monday plans are in shreds!
At breakfast I decide to try the slimmers suggestion of croissant bread and butter pudding - this is a complete joke. What crazy brain thought that adding a few pomegranate seeds and some candid peel makes this a breakfast option? And it’s big enough for four. Tasted wonderful!!
We started last night with the last minute news that Barbados was not accepting cruise ship guests excepting on arranged tours, or to government designated locations by taxi. We’ve become accustomed to rule-changes overnight and this is the same as in Grenada which we’ve been changed to the next day. We didn’t really fancy any of the tours, and we’ve been here quite a few times, so decide to remain onboard for the day, having discussed this eventuality repeatedly and concluded it’s still holiday, indeed some folks we know go to a resort and stay for two weeks without leaving the hotel. Additionally I’m building up quite a backlog of work so relish the prospect of some hours near the pool with my laptop.
And then bang, also last night, the Internet just died! We’d been told it’s kind-of sketchy around Barbados, although I don’t remember that three years ago when we were here, but hey-ho! I then try using mobile data but that was so fragile I get nowhere quickly - no work then! More time for swimming.
Next, the weather is decidedly grizzly, rain comes, wets everything then it’s sunshine again and furious humidity. We still do our ten miles, around the deck just like a sea day, don’t let the rain stop us.
We see Cunard’s Queen Victoria in the distance, we’ve only sailed here once, in 2008 with our friends John and Sheila. At present she is acting as a quarantine ship for all Carnival staff in need of sanctuary, and as a provisions / logistics vessel for the the fleet. She is a Vista Class, same design as several of the HAL fleet particularly Eurodam and Nieuw Amsterdam and also P&O’s Arcadia.
Later in the afternoon the weather improves and we manage sunshine, more swimming, and jacuzzi with Piña Coladas. Not a bad day at all!
We look up at Mein Shiff 2 parked accros the harbour, and down at Viking Sea parked next to us. We leave before them and enjoy a lovely view of the harbour in the setting sun.
The evening goes completely to plan, canapés on our verandah, then Pinnacle dinner where tonight we enjoy prawn cocktail and share a pork chop (note: half is more than sufficient for British appetites) and finally baked Alaska.
Someone asked about the stack - it is HUGE - a least four storeys tall. Here’s the other side view.
We come home to a stray elephant!
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