My third visit to this island, I had a fortnight here in the 90’s and a Cruise visit last November. Yesterday we were told that our P&O excursion had been been put back an hour to 14:00. Because of this Barbara and I went into town in the morning. As Britannia and Adventure of the Seas were docked in Port Zante, we were moored further along in the cargo port. We had to take a shuttle ride of about 10 minutes to Port Zante.

Once in town, we had a wander among the tourist shops by the port. We then strolled through the arch in the National Museum to the Circus. We saw the green clock there and then walked to St George’s Anglican Church, which is quite impressive for a small town. We meandered through the back streets on our return to the shuttle bus.

Back in Port Zante, we were looking for a bar with space for a quick beer before returning. As we were searching, Rob came across, so we joined Linda and him on their table. They had iced coffee and we had a Carib each. Rob had a Carib too, after his coffee. Then we took the shuttle back to the ship.

Our afternoon excursion was to the only remaining French plantation house on the island. After looking round Fairview Great House, we watched a cooking demonstration before eating the food. There was vegetable esteviche which contained butternut squash, eugh. Jerk pork, eugh. Grouper fish and rice & kidney beans, tasty. Dessert was coconut bread and butter pudding with rum raisins and rum sauce, yummy. There was also a ginger drink that was very nice. Not a complete success for me but the others enjoyed it. The lady who was cooking was complaining that she’d never been so cold in February. The temperature had dropped to 25C!

Because we’d eaten so late, we just had a light(er) meal in the Horizon buffet before killing a bottle of Rob’s red on the Terrace Deck. We then decamped to Champion’s for the Politics and Politicians quiz. We scored an amazing 18/20 the winners scored 19. We started off the Syndicate badly and improved. We ended up with 15/20, the winners (table 39) got 18. No one in the packed quiz clapped, everyone is fed up of them.

Tomorrow is our penultimate port and final Caribbean one. Then we have five sea days to look forward to.