Michael and I have always enjoyed finding local markets. Larkin wasn’t quite as thrilled but enjoyed the walk through while I took photos. We often wish we could just rent a cabin and cook to eat like the locals do, whether it is Venice, Rome, Mexico City or Saigon! This market made me smile! The fresh fruits looked incredible. It was fun to notice the boat load up palettes of this fresh fruit. We were actually running out of bananas.
After our jaunt through a few streets near our port, we loaded into an open air truck with 4 others. Bob and Luke from New York City and we finally met Sun and Jeung from Wisconsin via Korea. Sun is 19 and applying to art schools. His grandmother couldn’t make the cruise so he got to join the entire world cruise with his mother. Needless to say Larkin now has a creative kid to bounce the world off of on the ship! He has also binge watched The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings on the ship! Our truck took us up into the crater walls of Papanoo. Advil and arnica helped the pain of the muscles that night since the roads are not kept up and potholes abounded.
A fun item to note: 10,000 steps, NO PROBLEMO! Sit in an open air truck, bounce away for about two hours and VOILA – 10,000 steps. Doesn’t increase metabolism but my Fitbit applauded me! Doesn’t take much to make me smile.
As far as trying to step on the scale each morning, well that doesn’t happen since the scale on a moving ship at sea bounces, and I say that lightly, between 25 up and 25 down from what I should be weighing…LOL! it never seems to stop so I have given up unless we are in port. Since I don’t like most desserts, that has helped my calorie count. Its hard to be low carb as the average age of the world cruisers is quite high and as a fellow guest mentioned, most food seems soft. As a rule the soups are delicious. There are always appetizers to enjoy and often the three of us just eat light many meals. The staff keeps pushing bread, extra food, more courses etc on us. Larkin laughs and keeps calling them our grandmothers, “you sure you don’t want more?!”
The next post is Bora Bora!!
THE TRAVELING MARTINI'S 
I can relate on diet…….lots of Mexican, Spanish, Tex-mex, East Indian, New Mexican ( very different from old Mexican), South American, and French pastry bakeries. Many spices used…..from hot to OMG…..
Good wines……NOTHING as good as M2. But I sampled a lot to try to find some. Confession is a soul cleanse.
Travel on. Be safe!!!!
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