We had a fairly early tour organised for this morning so had to be up & in the theatre by 8am. Herded onto buses our first stop after a short drive through the usual rundown, mangy dog, tropical Central American suburbia was a banana plantation. Being on a bus load of oldies it took forever for everyone to get off, then back on the bus. We got the quick explanation about how quickly bananas grow & saw the runner drag in a row of banana bunches along a met...

A relaxing at sea day today. Breakfast a little later we then went to a talk by the other speaker on board, this one about the Panama Canal. Still wasn't the best speaker I'd seen but he was much better & it was in the theatre so less crowded. We went up to the lawn deck to read for a while then had lunch in the dining room just after 1pm. At 2 I went to one of the shops for a small workshop on how to do smoky eyes then it was time for some more relaxing and ...