WILLEMSTAD - It's nice and busy in Punda today. No fewer than three cruise ships are docked: the Insignia from Oceana Cruises, the World Voyager from Mystic cruises and the Odyssey of the seas. Together they have a capacity of about 6000 tourists.

It has been a long time since we could see so many ships in the city center at the same time. In exactly two weeks, on 23 December, there will be three more ships in port.