New Years Eve

Here I am in Funchal, a place I know well. David and I  bought time share here several years ago. I've been back quite a lot but this time on a cruise ship it feels different.
I have been off, taken a shuttle bus into town, walked round it and come back to the ship. It's very hot.
Every corner, every shop holds a memory or two.
Having walked the whole town I sat quietly in the Cathedral to find a noisy band was disrupting the peace just outside.
I find I'm becoming crabby.
The shops were mostly closed which surprised me since there are two other cruise ships moored up with us. Hundreds of extra bodies walking the streets....
I scuttled back to the security of Cunard and it's still only just gone eleven .
It is now confirmed. I have become old.
I didn't even buy anything!
I giggled at the shop where I bought Michael some underpants after he'd lost his! Don't ask!
I walked around shops I've bought things in in the past.
And then I went back to the bus. I didn't go up to our time share hotel....I confused them totally last time I was here on a cruise.
It's all feeling very negative right now so I must try to do better!
I start that process by ordering a Long Island iced tea.
So....I feel my feet on the slippery slope...

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