Christmas breakfast has never been like this before!
Fay models a Christmas pressy from us - an apron for her kitchen back home.
We make our way to Nelson's dockyard in party mood
Marisa, one of Fay's best friends from home, is here on Scheherazade
These Italian's are getting into the swing of things on Christmas Day!
Sean used to work with Fay on Windrose - Santa provided the sunnies for Piers!
Exploring the island - the gorgeous beach of Half-Moon Bay...
...Where you have to plaster yourself up with the creamy mud! For amazingly smooth skin afterwards.
It was great having Fay's boyfriend Errol staying with us for 2 weeks too. We approve!
Sadly, the time comes to leave all too soon. Fay + Errol back to Fay's Bristol home...
Piers and Jenni, back to Manchester, then Piers on to Shanghai.
Life continues as normal on our deck...
...And in town shopping for fish. Excellent and good value here in the market.
Our American friend Todd, engineer from Schererazade, owns a Carriacou sloop he built, which we went day sailing on. These are old style working boats which ply the waters between the Caribbean islands with small and varied cargoes.
Kendal is great fun, also from the USA. She seems to have got to know almost everyone on the island since arriving a few weeks ago!
The proud owner, Todd. Not a bad way of spending a Sunday!
We went to see (our first) 20/20 cricket match with Kendal in the Vast (Chinese built) cricket stadium...
We were rooting for Guyana - fielding here - against the Combined Colleges and Campuses (of the Caribbean). A really, incredibly exciting game!
These lads were also very enthusiastic supporters! We were about the only white faces in the stadium ...
Apart from a white, hilarious streaker who ran across the pitch at half time!
The match was decided in the last over: 3 balls to go, Guyana 4 points behind, they hit a six!!! This is the scene as the pitch gets invaded by ecstatic fans!
Up at Shirley heights for our next visitor - this chap is very skillful...
... making the bird for B. He's no longer allowed to work on the beaches and this explains why you do not find any pedlars on the beaches of Antigua in our experience.
Will Allen is our guest - sharing a birthday with B. Such great company!
We threw a great party, including the surprise arrival of the 5 stewardesses!
Steve, Marisa and Todd.
Will seemed to be having a great time!
A couple of days later,Vince seemed to be only one to get the message about the Super-Hero fancy dress at the Round the Island prize-giving at the yacht club! He's such a good sport, he did not seem to be at all perturbed and he, B and William had indeed been heroes! (see blog)
The next day, Paula and Pete arrived by cruise ship so the three simultaneous birthdays can be celebrated!
Paula, next to Will, Pete and B all with birthday on 17th January
Another deck party to celebrate, this time during the day.
The Airds can always be relied upon to swell a party in a fun way! Paula and Pete were friends with Katie (and Jed) in Zimbabwe.
A cold piece of reality - the very high technology carbon mast and then rigging of Salperton V gave way in calm seas and light airs off Guadeloupe, south of here. This is going to be a BIG insurance claim!
Life still goes on ...
Our next bumper crop of visitors: Giles (left) is our long awaited house mate, finally arrives with his lovely girlfriend Nicole (right). Also here are our good friends Suzy and Lee out from England.
The ferry man and his son (really!) bring us back from a great lunch over the other side of English harbour with everyone before Giles and Nicole go home.
More life...
Windrose returns from a shake down sail in preparation for ...
... the third RORC Caribbean 600 race, starts Monday 21st Feb.
And I leave for St. Maarten - to come back to Antigua soon, when my lawyer hopefully has things sorted for me. Fingers crossed for my long awaited, locally sabotaged work permit!!
Andy
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