Anguilla and Cap Juluca

Wow it took a long time to get here! 3 flights starting at 3am in the morning in Minneapolis via Atlanta and St Maarten arriving in Anguilla 16 hours later with a rather bedraggled Megan! The last plane Ian sat next to the pilot and nearly flew the plane over i.e. my knee kept getting in the way of the joystick. They also lost Megans bag along the way which we got 3 days later.

So we were very glad to get here - Cap Juluca - a great hotel with very friendly/helpful staff and guests. We were there c/o John (Creepy) Crawley the Captain of Hampshire Cricket club who had kindly donated the prize in a charity auction during his benefit year. (When i texted him to say thank you he confirmed he had announced his retirement from cricket - he has been a great contributor to the english game and we wish him well for the future - Good luck Creeepy).

At the hotel, there was white sand, warm blue sea and a strong warm breeze - too strong to do much waterskiing. (I skied anway!) Megan started not wanting to go into the sea but by the end of the holiday was jumping the waves with us and swimming out to the swim platform. Megan introduced to "cockarals" (Megans name for cocktails). Not much else to report other than we slept around 12 hours each night and lots of vegging - a true relaxing week with very friendly and helpful staff. Would recommend it. Meggie married her Dad on the wedding lawn - the day before a real wedding.

We leave in the morning for another day of travel - and a different hotel every night for a week - picking up the boys from Camp Lincoln and then going by train across Canada - so next blog will probably be from Vancouver - but hopefully the boys will do a blog re their camp after we pick them up. Bye bye for now.