Aaah, sleeping late is so luxurious! And a small breakfast, separating clothes for laundry, showering for lunch, and waiting for the ship to round the point of Brest to enter the English Channel before arriving in southhampton tomorrow morning. We decided to lunch at the Pinnacle Grill - the "high end" restaurant at $10/person. The food was nice and service good. Took pix of appetizers but forgot main course pix. Then trivia. We missed a bunch but did well on the...

Since we had been here before and we were kind of tired, we just wandered around the port area shops. Joey finally got close to buying a watch, but no.. He stopped for another tube of toothpaste, and then we went to the post office for a box to mail some fancy clothes home that we won't need in Italy. Back to the ship and packed that box up. Then back to the post office to mail the package! Lunch, trivia and dinner again. Not all that much special for the day.. S...

So we once again slept late and had a breakfast salad at noontime... Art auction, trivia, dinner ... I figured I haven't yet shown photos of the ship decorations for xmas (at least I don't recall having done so) so here they are! BTW, we won the trivia today !!! And at dinner we had a lovely Riesling--and I thought about Coco!!

Once again we hired a taxi guide based on his English discussion before we chose him. But soon, once he knew that we could both speak Spanish, he switched - and he only clarified in English. As we sped toward the northern part of the island, he explained that bananas are the main agricultural export, along with tomato and grapes (in the form of wine..) There are two airports on this island - but we didn't go toward either.. I thought we were going to the Universi...

Another wonderful tour- and learned that there are 400k in city, one million on island. We started at the beach of course, and as I turned back to the taxi , I couldn't believe my eyes- Cocina Celiaca - a restaurant dedicated to food for celiac and other people with eating problems! After an overview of the city and seeing the Queen Victoria senior citizen residence that costs all inclusive €1500 per mo with the view of the city, we visited the Hotel Santa ...