Planet Ruby Starrs

Tenerife ...Santa Cruz- big city...lots of shops but a nice park full of palm trees. We wandered around it and then went to look for coffee.  I'm sure Santa Cruz has some interesting areas but Dr Fred was cityed out after the park and coffee so I had a brief look for sun cream and then we came back to the boat.  Still 25° and blue skies....NO SNOW!!! I shouldnt moan but this ship lacks any nice sitting outside areas.... its all loungers - not comfy at all.  

It was a dark and stormy night and I'm pretty sure our cabin is haunted. How else can I account for the sudden levitations from the bed and the strange clanging in the room...... possibly the storm raging as the ship.... all however much tonnes of her is tossed around the bay of Biscay.... Yes a couple of rough days at sea - by far the worst we've had to date. Fortunately nothing much was required of us and a couple of sea sickness tablets did the trick and we just had a quiet day sorting out luggage and Dr Fred planned his future lectures.  Once medicated I didnt mind the bouncy ship but it became quite difficult to move about with any grace🤣🤣 as Dr Fred said the movement of the boat makes you feel for one moment you are on the moon almost wieghtless and then you are on Jupiter so heavy you are stuck to the floor. I went to art class and as the studio is in deck 10 right at the top - the motion of the ocean was very evident and several people had to leave. I ...

Happy New Year. I hope this year is going to be as full of adventures as last year was and just to set precedent we have spent the last couple of days traveling down to Portsmouth - (by train which for the first time in years went relatively well with only minor delays)!!!  We are now heading off into the sunset except that it is, as usual, cloudy towards the Caribbean hopefully for sunshine. We stayed at a cheap Travelodge very close the port and had a very good view of the moon and Venus. As if we hadn't eaten massive amounts of food over the festive period (in fact over the last month) we went out for a Ethiopian meal - which was mostly tasty, very interesting, but probably wouldn't be repeated... mainly because they cooked with something that was a bit fermented that I didn't like - but the restaurant was okay and the staff were very friendly it wasn't an unpleasant experience - we had good African beer. A decent nights sleep set us up to go look for the port.  Whic...