Key West

Key West

This port surpassed expectations. It has a pleasant shopping area, an attractive church and an appealing harbour walk. Nothing challenging, just a straight-forward seaside resort with many brown pelicans in the water and perching on the plentiful luxury yachts. TSH and Diva were able to take reasonable exercise walking round all of this. There was live entertainment in several bars and cannabis was on sale in shops. TSH and Diva neither partook nor inhaled (nor sucked – there were lollipops). Hens wandered everywhere - not sure why.

An amusing episode took place in the Post Office. A customer wanted to ‘post’ a suitcase. A pretty large one with wheels (and an interesting pop art design). Unwrapped. So it all came down to what type of tape and label they attached to it with varying levels of cost. The customer wanted advice but the assistant said it all came down to ‘customer choice’. The deadlock went on for ages and the queue got longer but most people were watching and wanting to know what happened. The customer was so clueless and the assistant was so politely unhelpful. TSH and Diva left before it was resolved but wondered if such an unpackaged item would even be accepted by the Royal Mail.

There was a small panic on return to the Silver Spirit. TSH and Diva had failed to read the instruction to take photo id and the Cruise Director had forgotten to include the instruction in her morning broadcast. The guard at the port was very polite about it and said he would sort something out but just in time Diva remembered that she carried a photocopy of the passports and this was accepted. Apparently many guests were in the same position and the Cruise Director later apologised.

TSH managed to fall asleep on the sofa in the suite whilst holding a glass of red wine. All over the sofa and Diva’s dress. No lasting damage.

A better pic of the Ft Lauderdale suite

Pelican