Thursday 16th January 2025
What an awful night. Poor Christine’s bones are really painful, those buggies have an awful lot to answer for and she has now stated quite categorically and finally, “never, never again” will she do an off-roading tour!!! If the bones weren’t enough, it bucketed it down all night and as these buildings only have a thin timber roof, we heard every drop fall!!!
Being their last day, we couldn’t ask them to hang around so Christine elected to stay back and rest whilst we headed off to Nelson’s Dockyard in English Harbour. The rain was still chucking it down, the good news, it is warm rain😂😂 but the forecast didn’t look good for much of the day. Anyway we set off. English harbour is the other end of the island and once we had cleared St John’s, the roads looked remarkably dry; strange!! And the nearer we got to Nelson’s Dockyard, the clearer the sky became, the rain had stopped😎😎
We split up, they carried on looking around, I found a coffee place and got chatting to a yacht skipper who had sailed over from Europe a couple of years ago and now lives on his boat for about 6-months cruising between the islands at will; this conversation together with the days sailing we did and naturally the blue sea and warm weather got me thinking; oh how I would like to get back into this way of life again. We have wonderful memories of Anam Cara, would we be able to make new memories if we got another boat I ask??? Anyway, dreaming over (for now) they joined me for a snack and of course Lee’s taste buds were tickled by this sailor and his “lot”.
Time to head back but first I took them to Falmouth Harbour to see the results of the fire, then onto Pigeon beach for a quick paddle before getting back for showers etc., prior to our visit to Papa Zouk’s for a lobster dinner.
Time for an aperitif before heading to down-town, St. John’s. Parking never seems to be a problem here, locals just stop and leave their car where they fancy and I am now settled into their driving ways, “big balls and go” seems to be the right way here!!!
As expected the place was heaving, so glad we booked, had we not done so, Lee and Sarah would have missed out again. This is one of those places that is all about the food and the atmosphere, not the surroundings, after all it is only a “tin shack” on a very small, out of the way, unlit side street. This time we had a table to ourselves, normally you just sit on a long bench along with other diners, as if you were at school but the floor is gravel!!!
The four of us had lobster in the various formats and they were magnificent, even their wine was very good but no choice!!! Tonight we were treated by Lee and Sarah; this very kind of them, thank you both very much.
Eventually we left but not before making another booking for next week.g
What was left of the evening gave us time for a night-cap or two, and a chat about our week together before heading to bed; the latest night we’ve had all week!!!!!
