Thursday, 3 October 2013

Back to English

Sydney is a small town in the Cape Breton Island  area of Nova Scotia. The Celtic influence is strong, with a giant model of a violin (fiddle?) (plywood? – for the Cohen fans) on the quayside and an energetic set of young musicians playing Irish/Scottish music inside. The language is now English. Once more, the locals are friendly – cars stop to allow people to cross and TSH and Diva have been greeted by many strangers in the street. One woman said that Coronation St was her favourite TV programme.
Not much Autumn colour here, in spite of the fact that it’s a few degrees cooler.  But still dry and very pleasant.

One result of missing ports and having other excursions cancelled is that the on-board cruise credit which Silversea offered as part of the package has not been spent. It’s not possible to transfer it to another cruise so it is necessary to spend it in the Silver Whisper shop. One necklace so far and TSH is calculating what is still left and what can still be bought.

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