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The Great Sail Home, it was actually a TransAtlantic Cruise, with a stop at the Azores. The scheduled stop was to be Ponta Delgada in the Azores. We’d been there before and planned to repeat our last visit. We wanted to take the excursion of the Sights and Cheese and Wine Sampler. This included a trip to see the two lakes, Sete Cidades. The lakes are famous for their striking colours. One lake appears green and the other blue. But, the weather can be very changeable. Rain and wind are common.
26/03/2024 – Last stop before the great sail home – to Southampton and, the steroids are doing their job. Podge can breathe so much better🙏.
We’ve been here so many times before that we had no great plans: Not even to visit Nelson Harbour. So, we decided that today we would simply go ashore and check out the shops but this time, we would visit Redcliffe Quay. For some reason, we’d never even seen this on the map even though its just around the corner of the main drag past the Heritage Quay Complex.
Here was to be yet more stories of our adventures of Podge (His Podgeness) & Tubbs (The Duchess) as they continued to cruise the Seven Sea and yes, we do know there actually more than seven seas (see endnote). But, as we entered into 2021, Covid was still prevalent and getting back on cruise ships still seemed beyond the proverbial horizon. Or, was it?
Until I mentioned it, The Duchess had never heard of the existence of Pink Dolphins and no matter how much I tried to persuade her, she would have none of it. So, all I could do was to book a cruise that would take us from Barbados down to the mouth of the Amazon and then upstream all the way to Manaus (The capital of the vast state of Amazonas), a distance of about 1000 kilometres. While there we would embark on an excursion to a jungle lodge then known as Ariau Towers ( no longer operating 😦 ).
The Adventures of Podge & Tubbs 