Looking out my window last night
It doesn’t exactly look like California, now doesn’t it. This particular location is a good drive from the airport, but only about 10 minutes from the cruise port. We saw a couple of moderate sized ships docked. The shuttle driver said that the last couple of years have been pretty rough – the island’s total population is about 100,000 for 37 sq miles (yes, they are on metric but most don’t yet think in sq km) which leaves this a pretty densely populated island. Besides tourism, there is money that comes in from the Dutch Government for the one side and the French still own and run the other side. In all the times I have come here, I have been over to the French side of the island only once.
Anyway, I am here, not as rested as I would have liked and ready to head to the ship (FYI – it is the usual, checkout is 1000, shuttle picks us up at 1145. Go figure…
The ship is the Star Legend, part of the Windstar line. This blogwill show up at 1400 where-ever time. I have that set so that I neither forget nor have internet issues. I have a cruise line prepaid transfer. I have a cabin number. I have my computer, tablet, stitching and plenty of books to read on my phone.
So – we leave tonight. I doubt that the internet will be any faster than it was on the way over. I will be signing in at some point every day…. and here is the itinerary:
Saturday, March 19, St. Maarten departing 1900
Sunday, March 20, At Sea
Monday, March 21,At Sea
Tuesday, March 22, At Sea
Wednesday, March 23, At Sea
Thursday,March 24, At Sea
Friday, March 25, At Sea
Saturday, March 26,At Sea
Sunday, March 27, At Sea
Monday, March 28 Horta, Azores – 0800 – 1800
Tuesday, March 29, At Sea
Wednesday, March 30, At Sea
Thursday, March 31, At Sea
Friday, April 1- Lisbon, Portugal 0700
