December 30 – Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Weather – 27º, sunny

Steps – 8,664

Humidity – 62%

Saint Kitts and Nevis (pop. 54,300) is country 106 and is part of the British Commonwealth. Saint Kitts is one island and Nevis is the other, it is the smallest country (pop and area) in the western hemisphere.  

Our tour was an afternoon one, so we had a chill morning. The first morning I’ve visited the juice guy – today we had grapefruit, pineapple, ginger, and spinach. An advantage of being only one floor below the pool is easy access to the juice guy.

our view today

We docked across from the 2,000 passenger Aida Blu cruise ship – has robots to interact with passengers, is

steel drum entertainment

mostly German speaking, allows smoking on balconies and has a nudist area! Our balcony was bathed in morning sun which I do not prefer and was hoping this ship might provide shade…nope. It was cloudy enough to sit while being entertained by the goings on of the Aida.

This cruise has been busy, with only 2 sea days so far. We’ll have another 2 at the end. A lack of sea days limits our visits to the juice guy.

Today we are docked at Saint Kitts and visited Nevis on a tour.

waiting to hit the beach

We took a party boat from Saint Kitts to Nevis for a ‘beach break’. About an hour on the boat, followed by 90 minutes at the beach and another hour back. For not being beach people, it was a great tour. We

watching the surf

didn’t get much in the way of local info, but did get a flavour of the music, drink, and what people do in their leisure time – there were plenty of locals at the beach.

3 small rum punches were included, and we took a bucket of local Carib beer ($20USD) to the beach. Once at the beach we paid for 2 chairs and an umbrella for $10USD – I thought that was reasonable. We brought our books, which was a good idea – 90 minutes listening to the waves, drinking beer, reading…lovely way to pass some time.

On the way to the beach, a steel drummer played and on the way back we listened to a DJ…made for a fun atmosphere.

beer?

our last Carib

Tonight’s we had a reservation at Chartreuse, the ship’s French, reservation required restaurant. As I’ve mentioned the reservation required restaurants don’t do much for us. Last night we were at the steak place, and it wasn’t great, so we are bailing on the French place…the main dining room is the place for us. It was the right choice – the vibe is better because we are more familiar with the staff there.

last 2 rum punches

The show tonight was Blazin’ Boots. It is one of the ship’s entertainment team’s shows. I think we’ve seen it approximately 1 million times, but it’s good. In fact, at one point Chris leaned over and said “what do you think this one is this one?” as they were setting up for the next song…we almost remembered their entire set list.

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