Thursday, January 13, 2011

Jan 12 - Martinique

We are in port early today and out early, 7 – 1, but we don’t plan to go far today, so we have breakfast in the dining room, wonderful eggs Florentine (eggs benny with some spinach), and fruit. We are seated with a couple from Ohio, great chat while watching the steep shoreline of Fort-de-France, Martinique.
We walk into the town, there are young girls and boys dancing at the terminal entrance. Mart. Belongs to France, lots of creole here, not many who speak English, but enough to manage. We walk around and look at the statues, church, square and some shops. They only take euros here, so we have to plan if we want to buy anything as we don’t have any euros. It is a very hot day, Gerry heads back to the ship and I walk the narrow streets and look in the little shops. It is a lot like New Orleans, old buildings, lots of work to be done to clean up buildings and streets. Cute place though.
We are back onboard and off cruising by lunch. We sit out by the pool in the sun for awhile then it rains, so in to read on deck, then G for a walk on the track on deck 3 and I head for a bicycle in the gym.
At dinner we sit with 2 older couples and we find out one gentleman, who looks like 80 is 91!! They have 3 daughters, they married when she was 20 and he was 50, and had children after that, so he is only now a grandfather to 2 kids under 2!! Afterwards we watch the “Battle of the Sexes” in the theatre, very funny, 3 women, 3 men, have to answer questions the same on each side to get points.

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