Cruise 2011

We flew out of EM Airport at 10:30 GMT on Saturday morning 5^th March on flight TOM 518, heading for Barbados. Barbados is 4 hours behind GMT, we landed at 15:30 local which was 19:30 here in the UK.
We embarked P&O's Azura shortly afterwards for our Caribbean cruise.

March 2011 Itinerary

Day	Date	Location
March 2011
Sat	5	Barbados
Sun	6	At Sea aboard Azura
Mon	7	Curaçao
Tue	8	Aruba
Wed	9	At Sea aboard Azura
Thu	10	St Maarten
Fri	11	At Sea aboard Azura
Sat	12	Tortola
Sun	13	St Kitts
Mon	14	Dominica
Tue	15	St Lucia
Wed	16	Grenada
Thu	17	At Sea aboard Azura
Fri	18	Barbados
Sat	19	Barbados

We flew from Barbados on Saturday 19^th March at 17:30 (21:30 GMT) on flight TOM 519, arriving EMA at 05:40 GMT on Sunday morning 20^th March.

(1) Sunday March 6^th 2011 The first day at sea, heading for Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles

(2) Deck 9, (D deck) (Dominica)

(3) Marg in Curaçao

(4) Bri in Curaçao

(5) Curaçao market

(6) Queen Juliana Bridge in Willemstad, Curaçao

(7) Westerdam in Curaçao

(8) Willemstad from Azura, with Westerdam and Queen Juliana Bridge

(9) Tuesday, 8th March, Aruba. Some of the buildings here look as though they're fresh out of a fairy tale

(10) Aruba

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(11) Aruba

(12) The rocks and walkways are teeming with iguanas

(13) Iguana in Aruba

(14) The Glass House on Azura.
The way wine is stored and re-sealed enables you to sample exotic wines by the glass in here

(15) One angle on the atrium

(16) The Blue Bar

(17) The Planet Bar - serves everything from cocktails to real ale. The three huge screens in each half of this bar feature different continents each night, in crisp, high definition

(18) Thursday 10th March.
The Boardwalk to Philipsburg, St Maarten.

(19) Marg in St Maarten

(20) Welcome to Tortola

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(21) Sunday 13th. Welcome to St Kitts

(22) St Kitts

(23) Independence Square, Basseterre, St Kitts

(24) One of the many old fashioned adverts seen in St Kitts

(25) It was Sunday but this church of Immaculate Conception was full, as were other churches nearby

(26) Monday 14th. Dominica. This is a scan of a P&O photo, taken whilst leaving the ship in Dominica

(27) Bri in Dominica

(28) Dominica

(29) Tuesday 15th. St Lucia. Another scan from a P&O photo

(30) St Lucia

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(31) Wednesday 16th. Welcome to Grenada

(32) Caribbean Princess & Azura in Grenada

(33) Caribbean Princess, Azura & Marg from Fort George in Grenada

(34) Looking over the harbour city of Saint Georges, in Grenada

(35) The road train offers you a lift up the steep hill, but it proved a little too steep and the driver had to abort the climb before reaching the top.

(36) One of the most destructive hurricanes struck Grenada in 2004. St George's Church was one of many to be damaged on September 7^th by Hurricane Ivan. Through the door on the right is a chapel that was unscathed and is still in use.

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Caribbean Cruise aboard Azura