{"id":10329,"date":"2016-01-06T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2016-12-31T07:14:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T12:14:21","slug":"roatan-islas-de-la-bahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=10329","title":{"rendered":"Roatan, Islas de la Bahia, Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday – January 6, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon…..”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"DSC_2961\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The ship traveled along the Central American coast all night and we arrived at the island of Roatan, the largest of Honduras’ Bay Islands. The Norwegian Dawn anchored offshore with three other gigantic ships, like pleasure yachts in a cove. We didn’t have any scheduled excursions this morning so we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast and then obtained “tender tickets” to go ashore.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"DSC_2974\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC_2984\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There was just a row of recently built tourist shops crowded with cruise ship passengers. We noticed a road leaving the shops so we took a walk into town.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_3008\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC_3002\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC_3047\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC_3016\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC_3032\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The town reminded me of other Caribbean communities with brightly painted buildings and welcoming signs. Schools were still closed for the holidays and children were everywhere. It seemed like a friendly place and I hope the economy was boosted by the cruise ships.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_3045\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We caught one of the tenders back to the ship and sat on a high\u00a0deck and watched the world go by. As the sun set, the Norwegian Jade, our sister ship, sailed off into the great beyond….<\/p>\n

\"DSC_3076\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps we were getting our sea-legs; or just getting into the ‘swing’ of things on board. No worries. It was easy to just relax and enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_3082\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday – January 6, 2016 “They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon…..” The ship traveled along the Central American coast all night and we arrived at the island of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-america","category-cruising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11523,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions\/11523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}