It's hard to believe we're into our 12th. Sea day, yes we stopped at Pitcairn for a couple of hours and Easter Island for a while before plans to land were scuttled, but this is our 12th. Day without our feet touching Terra Firma. There's an air of excitement around the ship, not only from pax, but crew lucky enough to be getting an hour or two off.
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The ocean has flattened out, the skies are blue and sunny once more, it's like the end of term from our school days. After the ship has been cleared by Peruvian authorities, we have to collect our shore passes, it will be very zoo like down there no doubt, thank God we are only 600 or so pax. as we are not on an organized tour we'll wait for the crowd to disperse before we venture into the fray, hopefully it will be quiet and orderly by the time we pick our passes up.
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There will be much window cleaning around the ship today as every inch of exposed glass has been exposed to sea spray for the past 12 days. Our cabin has been cleaned already and it's good to be able to see through our windows again.
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A warning came from the bridge, reminding us not to flaunt jewelery or cash while ashore, this should be a given but there are always those silly enough to do so. We tend to dress down when going ashore in most ports and carry very little cash. The police in many of these South American countries turn a blind eye to tourist crime and we know a few who've learned the hard way.
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It was scorching when we berthed at around 1pm, nothing to see but sand dunes for miles and miles of Atacama desert. No trees just a barren landscape with semis parked all along the highway waiting for freighters to dock and unload.
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The shuttle into town took about 20 minutes, the sidewalks were lined with cheap hotels and even cheaper backpackers shack like abodes. Local entrepreneurs hawked their wares along the front selling all the usual "stuff we never knew we needed". Restaurateurs waved menus at us, like we really needed to eat after 12 days at sea. We did pick up a few items just to help the local economy. I gave a guy a buck to take a photo of his "pet pelican" but because of the sun on the screen, it didn't turn out so good. An hour in the heat was enough for us so caught the shuttle back to the ship and sat in the shade.
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Dorothy still labors with her breathing and coughing, she's waiting for the Doctors office to open at 5pm. Her steroid inhaler is helping but she really needs to get checked out again. After seeing the Doc. he says she has an allergy and thinks it may be "mold" in the room!!!! Our room has been cleaned, sanitized and all bedding has been changed to non allergenic materials. She's using a nebulizer, "steam mask" and her chest sounds much better already. Will keep you up to date on this latest development.
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Tonight will be an early one for us as we have a 6.00am wake up for a private all day tour in Lima. Jennie arranged this months ago, so that we could have the tour company owner as our tour guide. He came highly recommended on Cruise Critic so I look forward to reporting it all to you. We have two days in Lima with tours both days, if I miss posting tomorrow, it's only because we may have returned late but I'll catch up when I have time.
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After dinner we went to an encore performance by Bobby Brooks Hamilton, son of the late great Jackie Wilson, he has a great voice and besides one or two of his dad's hits, he did some 50's & 60's numbers which we all knew.
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Off to bed now, 6.00am comes early….
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