Cruise Port 1 – St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey
So for those of you keeping track, this is vacation day 7, cruise day 1 (or two, if you count boarding day). Yesterday, we took a bus (private hire) from our hotel (well, almost – more on that later) to our ship’s port at Southampton. Won’t cover it in detail because it’s pretty boring, but I did post the pictures we took on our way there.
Our ship’s first port was Guernsey, namesake of the famous cow, and one of the channel islands. On Guernsey, we visited St. Peter’s Port, which was famously occupied by the Germans during WWII. We also saw another castle, Castle Coronet. This one is more complete, technically lived-in, and has more era-appropriate furnishings and appointments. Which makes it seem kinda fake in comparison, but hey – a little content in castles at this point is a good thing, given than our last one (Berkhamsted) was a grassy field with some piles of old rocks.
We took a Princess-provided walking tour of St. Peters Port and Castle Coronet. We probably wouldn’t take a Princess walking tour again; while their normal tours are lead pretty well, the walking tour guide could not enunciate well and the tour mostly consisted of everyone jockying for front position every time she stopped, so that we could hear her. If you weren’t standing right in front of her when she stopped walking and started talking, you missed what she was saying. Anyway, pics of St. Peters Port and Castle Coronet are HERE.