Nothing planned in the way of trips today which was nice and enabled us to have a quiet restful day and enjoying the good weather. St Johns is another island ruled by the puritanical Brits for many years and now separated and looking at the dockside money needs to be spent on this place. Lockdown means we can only visit the tourist shops within the port area selling the usual t-shirts, cheap jewellery etc, you get the picture and so as nothing interested on this island unless you want a full day on a catamaran going round the island or snorkelling we had previously agreed that a day on on board would be nice.
The weather was as good as usual at around 27 C and low humidity and so following breakfast we returned to the cabin for noel to catch up with blogging and photos before spending time on the balcony watching the clouds go by. After lunch in La Terraza we headed of to the pool and found a couple of relaxer chairs and spent a good two hours there before returning to the cabin whilst Jennifer spent a little extra time by the pool.
Having studded the restaurant menus on the in house system we decided to go the La Terraza for dinner but its not necessary to make a booking so we di not as after a quiet drink in the lounge listening to the lady pianist we went to the La Terraza only to find they were booked up and could we come back, so we then said lets go to the Atlantide main restaurant which was virtually empty and easy to obtain a seat. Not sure what was happening in the Italian restaurant but it was very popular its seems. Actually in retrospect we were pleased that we ended up in the restaurant as the food was excellent and we both had the Veal chop and it was superb and so tasty and tender..absolutely brilliant with a couple of glasses of chardonnay.
Following dinner we were unsure whether to go to the main theatre to watch a film or head back to the room to enjoy some further peace and quiet and watched some rubbish tv, although we did start watching ‘Silent Witness’ on BBC only to lose the satellite connections after about ten minutes and so decided to go to bed and read for a while. By this time the ship had left port and headed for our next port of call called St Kitts where we are to take a trip on the train line which originally carried the sugar cane from the hills to the production plants but this was stopped in 2005 due falling price of sugar and so it has been converted in to a tourist attraction.
See you tomorrow
