Month: March 2020

Hello dear friends and readers,

in this hard and strange times you could imagine that travelling thru the world is currently not possible. So Faye and I decided to stop moving.

Consequently our blog will provide no further stories about our drifting life and our experiences. We do not want to use our blog to talk about the current situation and provide usefull or foulish hints.

Nobody knows that the future will be, neither us. So no plans for the moment at all.

We wish you all the best, we hope you and your beloved are save and not hardly affected by the crises.

Thank you for your support in the last 15 months, we love you all.

Faye and Andy (aka Freaky and Weird)

… where you feel loved <3

And we are finally home with our loved ones, enjoying the Ohana vibes again 🙂

Unfortunately we were locked out of our own blog, no way of accessing it for both of us! But finally we made it, could log in again, and here we are already, sitting at the airport waiting for our flight back.

To put long stories short, we survived our cruise without killing each other or anybody else. Thus: goal achieved!

We titled this experience as “awfully nice”, good to have made it, but not again I would say.

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Luckily we were picked up from the ship by our new Jamaican family, Janet and Rad, had again a nice cocktail at the Hard Rock Cafe (after breakfast this time ^^) and a good talk and lot of fun.

Then we had two days off and enjoyed the silence and relaxation at the Waterfield Retreat (great view, otherwise quite disappointing accomodation).

And right now we are already checked in to our flight from Montego Bay to Brussels. Unbelievable that 4 1/2 months passed since we started our Caribbean tour!

But for both of us it was enough and we are soooo happy to see our family and friends again soon <3

After walking 1 1/2 hours through Road Town we didn’t find anything special or nice on this British Virgin Island. The current was too strong to swim in a lot of the beaches, and being lined up with all the other cruise ship tourists at the beaches that were left, no thanks! And Road Town is even not really a town, nearly no cafes or restaurants, no groceries or shops like on the other islands. Just a small local crafts village where they sell stuff from China or India 😉 Funny that this is one of the cruise destinations, but we did not do the expensive tours an yachts or catamarans to the other smaller islands, so maybe it is just a good point to start another tour from.

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After our extraordinary shopping and Cocktails tour we surprisingly found this great guy, Nick Maley, who helped creating Yoda (and some other cool creatures) and runs a small museum in St. Maarten.

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St. Marteen, Dutch Virgin Islands. After 15 months we finally really did it: started our morning right away with a Cocktail for breakfast … oops, no two … okay at the end even three 😉

But free WiFi at the Hard Rock Cafe and only 2$ for each refill made it possible, and yes, after 2 hours we even took a starters platter and then did some shopping afterwards. So now we have a lot of shirts and sweats with St. Maarten logo on it 😀

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Celebrating our 31. Wedding Anniversary 😀

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As Faye wrote, yesterday was a not such a good day for us and for our relationship. The massive input of people, music, entertaiment, heat and trash talks was just too much.

So as a consequence we tried today to find more quiet places, not an easy thing on a ship with 2400 tourists. But we made it. We skipped the breakfast, had a very slow morning in the cabin, and joined the lunch very early at noon on the outer deck. Because most people just finished breakfast and searched the sun on the pool we were on our own. We had a corner table with a nice view to the see, and lucky us we are saw even some whales. The rest of the daylight we spent on the frontdeck (also only a very few people there) and next to the railing on deck5. We had some good talks and found back to ourselves. Early lunch means also early dinner so we choose the same strategy an outside table in the corner. We had a very beautiful sunset and we spent several more hours (even without eating but with white wine and beer) at the deck. Funnywhise the whole evening nobody asked to sit on our 8 person table, like we had an invisible sign „pisss off, we like to be on our own“ on the table.

So our lesson learned for cruise ship traveling: if you like to get rid of the hustle and bustle on a cruise, eat anti cyclic and search quiet places, they exist you just need to find them.

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