Saturday, 13 December 2014

Santa Cruz de la Palma

Saturday 6th December

I had left a note with Jenny to phone me when she got up, so we could go to breakfast together and then out exploring. That ended up being close to 10am. I had woken several times but was happy to go back to sleep.

Jenny and I set out to explore the town. We walked along the promenade and stopped for coffee when it rained. We then walked higher in the town and found a wonderful shopping street parallel to the promenade but two streets up. We were sorry we had not found it first, for coffee. Jenny bought some shoes but they did not fit me. I enjoyed the quaint architecture. On the way back to the ship we stopped at the port and sat in the sun.  Glorious!

I took my jam (from breakfast) and clotted cream along to afternoon tea. The waiter, who had previously seemed very unhelpful, told me that they could fetch that sort of jam for me any time if I preferred it. Also, if I asked for clotted cream they could bring it for me. That is worth knowing for the future. He actually went off to check the information for me.

Once again my key had demagnetised and I had to go to the Purser’s office to get a new one. Of course I looked in the Swarovski shop on my way. Time passed very quickly and it was soon 7pm and I had to get ready to meet Jenny for dinner. Once again we went to the King’s Court. 


After dinner I had hoped to meet Vi for coffee but she was tired and had taken dinner in her room and did not intend to dance. I went to the Queen's Room with Jenny but I knew I would not be staying, and didn’t even have dance shoes on or party night clothes. I was not prepared to waste a lot of energy in modern dancing, just standing and shaking everything! Besides, the modern band plays very loud music. I stayed until 9:45 when Vibz started playing, and then returned to my room to catch up on things and relax. Unfortunately I could still hear the vibrations from Vibz in my room. It might have been a problem if I’d gone to bed straight away but it was fine while I read. I got to bed about midnight.














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