Part 2 of ???:
Back from the Country Fair. It’s a cute event, if you are fond of crowds of screaming passengers on the pool deck, rather silly games, lots of forced jollity, and seeing the bartenders and dancers in tight cowboy outfits (hmm, upon reflection with regard to that last feature of the party, maybe it wasn’t such an unfortunate event…). Moving right along to less lecherous topics, we consider the camel rides on Lanzarote.

Some passengers did not take the tour which included the camel rides because they understandably thought the camel ride would be something like riding the ponies in a circle at the zoo. In fact, it was quite artificial, not remotely authentic, and an absolute hoot!!! Just watching everyone hold on for dear life as the camels lurch to their feet and then make a similarly ungraceful descent at the end of the 20-minute camel ride is worth the price of admission. We were fortunate to not have had the pleasure of having the camel behind us drool all over our shirts, as did several other passengers. Oh well, I’ve had it on quite good authority that camel slobber is an excellent fabric softener. Without reservation we would recommend the tour of South Lanzarote with the camel ride, even though we have most assuredly removed camels from our list of potential housepets.

Funchal – a city of great beauty. Further, the occasion to get a magnificent bouquet of proteas and orchids for our cabin, along with a lovely bouquet for our cabin attendant – priceless. For everything else in Funchal, there’s MasterCard.

Yikes, almost time for Trivia, which has been a bit frustrating as some of the Trivial Pursuits answers are simply wrong (i.e. stating that the first U.S. president to visit the USSR was Nixon, not FDR – our answer). But we will continue to try to outwit or out-dimwit the competition.

(To be continued, depending upon the supply of Macallan single malt scotch…) Cheers, Fred