Woke up this morning to a lovely breakfast cooked by Andrew ( with a little help from Gretta )... it's Grettas' birthday. After breakfast they drove us into Penrith to Europcar to pick up our prebooked car.. yes well even though I'd booked they didn't have a car available for us and the receptionist was a spinney flakey lady with little to no customer service skills! There was another couple there before us that were obviously having trouble gett...

The last few days were sea days so lots of lazing around, trivia, shows, casino, dancing and of course a couple of cocktails! We spent a bit of time with Gary and Kaylene and Paul and Fiona, funny how you just continually run into the same people. They are a lovely couple and hopefully we'll keep in touch with them. One time we went up to the Plantation Buffet for lunch all the tables were full but we saw one of the big round tables just had one lady sitting...

Our last port of call was Lifou on Christmas Day... We, like just about everyone else, walked up to the church "Our Lady of Lourdes", it's a long steep climb but does have lovely views so worth the effort. When you get off the ship walk up past the cross and through the car park up the road, take a left turn and follow the road. It takes about 10, maybe 15 mins to get to the top. On the way there is another road that goes off to the right, this leads down to...

Today is another tender day so of course we were woken quite early with all the mystery noise... We'd had breakfast and were on the tender by 9am.. Mystery Island is a tiny little place that you can walk around in about 45 minutes and it's absolutely gorgeous. No-one actually lives on the island but on cruise ship days all the locals from a nearby island come over in their boats with the whole family and set up a market. They have lots of souvenir (y) s...

Port Vila.. I hadn't really planned too much for this day. Just thought we’d take it as it comes. We went up for breakfast a bit later to miss the crowds cos everyone wanted to get off the ship as soon as possible. No tenders in Port Vila, we docked right at the wharf, such as it is!! When you get off the ship if you haven’t booked a tour through the ship there is what seems like hundreds of blokes waiting to get you into their taxis/buses. They s...