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 ...

We hadn't really found much that there was to do in Cozumel & we were pretty correct. We were off the boat around 9 am after getting in at 7, pulling up beside a Royal Caribbean ship & a carnival ship at the international pier which we thought was around 1.5 miles from town but turned out to be closer to 3. It was overcast but humid so it was quiet a warm walk, luckily along the edge of the water which was quite rocky along most stretches obviously being ...

A quiet relaxing at sea day today to get the cruise started. I had a cappuccino at the cafe where Sean then met me to head for breakfast in the buffet. It was then time for the galley tour which seemed of interest to a lot of people, eventually it was our group's turn although the chef who took us around was Indian & very difficult to understand. We went to see if we could sneak into a talk about Christopher Columbus a little late next but it was barely stand...

It's cruise day!! We had downloaded the Uber app to use to get us to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale so after breakfast & a walk to the atm we were soon flagging down our über driver who's short fall was he barely spoke English. About 40mins later we were being dropped off which given Sean had a $15 credit it was only $19USD & took a 1/3 of the time of public transport. Check in was fairly swift, we dropped our bags (but had nothing small to tip the p...

Off to the Everglades today! Our day tour wasn't picking us up until a reasonable 9.40 & they were there early to take us to our smaller bus for the drive out of Miami. On the way there was a rather loud commentary with some good view of the city & port as we left to the west. Once at the Everglades Safari Park we were directed to airboats for a half hour zoom over the water & grasses. We saw some alligators, the first swimming across in front of the ...