The Christmas Holiday
The preparations for Christmas are well underway throughout Paramaibo. Otto & Esther have a dinner dance to attend and we go shopping for new shoes, Christmas lights, food and decorations, not to mention new furnishings for the guest bedroom!
On our return to Domberg, we meet Peter & Louise from our neighbour ‘Passagemaker’ and are invited for sundowners with them. There boat is very interesting– it being the first of it’s type—basically a boat which can be motored anywhere and sailed when there is sufficient wind. ’Passagemaker will be 50 next year so celebrations are being planned.
On Christmas Eve we join twelve other people from the yachts around at Ritas’ Eatery. Louise has cooked 2 turkeys and all the other boats have brought some accompanying item. Plenty of alcohol with nibbles, next smoked fish pate, some sumptuous salads with the turkey and finally chocolate cake to finish. A memorable Christmas Eve.
Christmas Day and Esther picks us up mid morning. Coffee and home-made biscuits followed by the opening of little gifts. Ottos’ son Wicher makes a sandwich selection and we have a game of Suramanese Monopoly. Then Esther & I prepare the Christmas dinner. Five hours later we sit down to smoked salmon salad with whiskey dressing, then roast turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes sweet peppers, runner beans, pumpkin mash, cranberry sauce (with port) and gravy.
Replete we sit down with coffee and I teach them all to play Mexican train Dominoes!
After breakfast on Boxing Day we drive to the other side of the river to Commewijne area. Here we pass through Frederiksdorp and Pepperpot to Nieuw Amsterdam where we tour an open air Fort. After coffee we continue Here we use a local Ferry to take us across the river Commewijne to a refurbished plantation for lunch. We narrowly miss seeing resident Caimans here. The drive home is through the local villages with not very much traffic.
Turkey Curry with vegetable side dishes after dinner , more Dominoes.
The preparations for Christmas are well underway throughout Paramaibo. Otto & Esther have a dinner dance to attend and we go shopping for new shoes, Christmas lights, food and decorations, not to mention new furnishings for the guest bedroom!
On our return to Domberg, we meet Peter & Louise from our neighbour ‘Passagemaker’ and are invited for sundowners with them. There boat is very interesting– it being the first of it’s type—basically a boat which can be motored anywhere and sailed when there is sufficient wind. ’Passagemaker will be 50 next year so celebrations are being planned.
On Christmas Eve we join twelve other people from the yachts around at Ritas’ Eatery. Louise has cooked 2 turkeys and all the other boats have brought some accompanying item. Plenty of alcohol with nibbles, next smoked fish pate, some sumptuous salads with the turkey and finally chocolate cake to finish. A memorable Christmas Eve.
Christmas Day and Esther picks us up mid morning. Coffee and home-made biscuits followed by the opening of little gifts. Ottos’ son Wicher makes a sandwich selection and we have a game of Suramanese Monopoly. Then Esther & I prepare the Christmas dinner. Five hours later we sit down to smoked salmon salad with whiskey dressing, then roast turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes sweet peppers, runner beans, pumpkin mash, cranberry sauce (with port) and gravy.
Replete we sit down with coffee and I teach them all to play Mexican train Dominoes!
After breakfast on Boxing Day we drive to the other side of the river to Commewijne area. Here we pass through Frederiksdorp and Pepperpot to Nieuw Amsterdam where we tour an open air Fort. After coffee we continue Here we use a local Ferry to take us across the river Commewijne to a refurbished plantation for lunch. We narrowly miss seeing resident Caimans here. The drive home is through the local villages with not very much traffic.
Turkey Curry with vegetable side dishes after dinner , more Dominoes.
No comments:
Post a Comment