Day Fourteen

Another early rise for me, Sheila still in bed, I'll call her bout 8am. It's Curacao today part of the Dutch Antillies, never been here either, so may have a run in a taxi to see the island, Jennifer and John have said to join them if we like, as they're planning to do the sa
me thing. Anyway off to breakfast....
Late morning I did a trip around part of the island, went with Sheila, Jennifer and John. It was quite interesting, but nothing really different to any other Caribbean island. And thats not putting the islands down, quite the contrary, all the islands are beautiful, its just that once you've seen one Caribbean island you've in all honesty seen them all.
God I completely forgot about the stop at the Curacao Liqueur factory! How could I forget that when you could drink as much of the stuff as you wanted? Thinking on it that's probably the reason....LOL. There were four different flavours and if you mixed them all together in one glass it was beautiful, it knocked your head off but made you feel beautiful...lol 

See how beautiful it's made John and I...LOL

  After the trip we came back to the ship for lunch, then ventured out on foot to explore the town, which is called Willemstaat. It's a very pretty town with the sea front looking very
Dutch, well the island is part of the Dutch antillies so that really shouldn't be
a surprise. The buildings are the usual Caribbean blaze of multi-colour.But very Dutch looking in design. We crossed the floating bridge to get to the main part of town and were very lucky to see it put into action, as a couple of small ships needed to pass through. As facinating as it was, the health and safety aspect left a lot to be desired as all that happens when a boat needs to pass is a bell rings and the bridge immediately starts to move, everybody has to run and jump the gap.....quite exciting really and very funny in some cases watching the panic by the tourists who don't quite know whats going on...lol. We moved on and exploerd the town which has a really interesting floating market. We even had a cheap beer in what i can only describe as a Dutch Barn type food hall for the locals. It was a very authentic way to have a drink and pass half an hour.....but definately NOT! the place to have something to eat......lol after an hour or two wandering round the town, we came back on board for happy hour on the ship......the cold beer was very welcome....enough said....lol