St Kitts

11 March 2015

A bus took us on a 40-minute drive this morning to a point on St Kitts where we joined the St Kitts Scenic Railway, a rickety old legacy of a bygone era but with the charm you'd expect.  The bus driver had verbal diarrhoea, giving us a complete history of everything we saw.  The long bus trip caused one to wonder whether we were not on the train tour.  A German man shouted to him to stop, querying if we'd boarded the wrong tour.  The bus driver got upset, but clarified we were about to arrive at the train.

The bus had driven along the Caribbean side of the island.  The train then travelled down the Atlantic side.  Sitting upstairs in the open top area, we followed the ocean to our left and St Kitts' dormant volcano to our right, passing towns, sugar plantations, schools, and people waving to the train as it passed.

We returned for a late lunch on the ship, and fell asleep on deck chairs by the pool.

With our visit to St Kitts & Nevis, the number of countries I've visited now rises to 53.

The island of St Kitts

The capital, Basseterre

Perhaps these bikers have come from our ship.  The Celebrity Eclipse currently has many bikers who cruise and get off with their bikes wherever the ship docks.

The St Kitts Scenic Railway arrives to take us down the Atlantic side of the island.

We sat up top, drinking piña coladas.

The dormant volcano

Not sure of this island's name.  It's not Nevis.  But the island and the one behind mark the boundary between the Caribbean and Atlantic.

Downstairs in the train

Kittitian locals sang for us on the train.

On the Atlantic coast

In Basseterre

In Basseterre

In Basseterre

In Basseterre

Returning to the ship.  To the right is the German ship 'Mein Schiff'.  A German passenger told me it carried 2000 passengers containing Germans, Austrians and Swiss.

The pool area on Mein Schiff as seen from our pool deck.

Mein Schiff with St Kitts in the background.

As we depart, Mein Schiff passengers wave aufwiedersehen.

We depart St Kitts.