Last leg of the trip HOME.

The final leg of our trip took us to the island of Madeira, and to Lisbon, Portugal's capitol city, and to the city of Vigo, on Spain’s west coast.

 

The Boat docked in Madeira 

If you enlarge you can see a 3D map of the boat.

Champagne bar “girls” I’m told they make a good G & T. Mary Ken and Jim managed to get at least one G and T every night before dinner.

Dress up for dinner. One of 3 formal dress nights.

Three separate dining rooms, over three floors. We dined on the top one.

One of the sets on stage. Can you see

the real people?.

Chris, if you see this, we have a load of

“baskets to make” to catch theses guys.

Fish market. Anyone for some Octopus?

The flower show in Madeira.

The displays were superb, and the pictures

here don’t do them justice.

Ken. “The Man” of the day……….

Didn’t he do well? 

 

Lisbon.

Police cars? A Porsche?…………….dream on Jim..

4 wheels or two……..

Inside the Police National Guard.

Out side the Police National Guard HQ Lisbon

From the top of the old steam powered

(now electric) lift, looking over the city.

The lift.

Lisbon’s main street, looking towards

the port. All the street are mainly car free

and very people friendly.

The name of this art work is “ Man Diving  into the Sea”

It is at the port in Vigo, Spain.

 

A lot of the buildings were in need of repair, especially in the old quarter of the city of Vigo.

 

From here we had another day at sea, arriving in Southampton, England at around 5am Sunday morning 25th April. We were that excited at being home, we forgot to get any pictures, but we were met at the dock by our daughter and son in law,  Genette and Darren, and little Grace and Edward, who were proudly holding the banners they had made and several balloons to welcome us home.  

Darren drove Jim to the nearby airport to collect the rental car, then, having loaded it with all our luggage began the drive home. Of course yet another surprise awaited us on arrival. The house was plastered with welcome home banners, balloons everywhere and a huge buffet style meal waiting for us, courtesy of Georgina and Dan. Again no pictures, just never thought of getting the camera out. Dan and George had also filled our fridge and cupboards with all the essentials, to keep us going until we got chance to get to the supermarket.

So finally ends our fantastic adventure. We are both looking forward to whatever life now throws at us, knowing that whatever it is, we will have fun. If the last 6 years has taught us anything at all, it is to get as much out of life as you can, and we intend to continue doing just that.