Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Arrived in Curacao
The Island of Curacao, is the largest of the Dutch Antilles measuring 38 miles by 7.5 miles and has a population of 170,000. The main language is Dutch and the capital is Willemstad.
The islands are only 40 miles from Venezuela and the Anthropologists speculate that the fierce cannibalistic Carib Indians had forced the Caiquetios to paddle for their lives and landed in Curacao. The first Europeans discovered the Islands in 1499 on a voyage from Spain. In 1634 the Dutch West India Company claimed Curacao without striking a single blow and the Island prospered under Dutch rule until 1915. Today it hosts one of the worlds largest oil refineries run by Royal Dutch/Shell.
The islands are only 40 miles from Venezuela and the Anthropologists speculate that the fierce cannibalistic Carib Indians had forced the Caiquetios to paddle for their lives and landed in Curacao. The first Europeans discovered the Islands in 1499 on a voyage from Spain. In 1634 the Dutch West India Company claimed Curacao without striking a single blow and the Island prospered under Dutch rule until 1915. Today it hosts one of the worlds largest oil refineries run by Royal Dutch/Shell.
Monday, 29 March 2010
Aruba facts
Aruba is part of the Dutch Antillies, where different languages are spoken, English, Spanish Dutch and their own local dialect Papiamento, combination of Dutch, Emglish, African, Portugese, Spanish and Indian words.
The size of the Island is 74 Square miles.
The size of the Island is 74 Square miles.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Arrived in Miami
Well we arrived safe and well in Miami around 7:30 pm which was around 3:30am in the UK. Passport control took about 45 minutes and then we went to collect our cases. Fantastic all delivered and sitting waiting for us to pick them up. We were collected by a driver and taken to the hotel which looked fantastic from the outside and even better from the inside. Our room is on the 26th floor and the enclosed picture is taken from our balcony.
We are being collected at 1pm for a 40 minute ride to Fort Lauderdale where join the Grand Princess.
We are being collected at 1pm for a 40 minute ride to Fort Lauderdale where join the Grand Princess.
London Heathrow
Just our luck, we were ushered into a line at security control which just stops, somehow they got a case stuck inside the scanner. 8 people tried to solve the problem without success but after 10 minutes some bright spark had a brain wave, crawl into the machine and pull the offending article out. Clearly this lad is destined for higher management.
Terminal 5 looks pretty calm with no major delays showing anywhere on their departure boards so that is a good sign.
If all goes well the last hurdle will be arriving in the USA and waiting with baited breath to see if our cases have made the same flight. If not, this would really screw up our plans as we have less than 24 hours to board the ship and would mean that for a fortnight we would be dining in bathing costumes.
But lets be positive, it will be all right on the night, next stop Miami.
Terminal 5 looks pretty calm with no major delays showing anywhere on their departure boards so that is a good sign.
If all goes well the last hurdle will be arriving in the USA and waiting with baited breath to see if our cases have made the same flight. If not, this would really screw up our plans as we have less than 24 hours to board the ship and would mean that for a fortnight we would be dining in bathing costumes.
But lets be positive, it will be all right on the night, next stop Miami.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
On our way to London
The time is now 22:30 and we have just arrived at the Hilton hotel in Warwick after a six and half hour drive. When we left the weather was dry and fine, but within two hours this had changed to rain making the drive very sore on the eyes.
Traffic was not too bad although there was many road works which i am sure will make the return journey difficult. Tomorrow morning after breakfast we have only 110 miles until we reach Southampton, so this should only take a couple of hours. If all goes well, once we drop the car off, our taxi driver should be waiting to take us to Heathrow where we will stay overnight for our departure the following day for Miami.
Traffic was not too bad although there was many road works which i am sure will make the return journey difficult. Tomorrow morning after breakfast we have only 110 miles until we reach Southampton, so this should only take a couple of hours. If all goes well, once we drop the car off, our taxi driver should be waiting to take us to Heathrow where we will stay overnight for our departure the following day for Miami.
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Nearly time to leave the UK
Saturday the 19th BA are now on strike and hopefully we will mange to fly out to Miami on Thursday, only time will tell.
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