WALTER EVERETT ("The Beatles as musicians"): “Things We Said Today” McCartney is quoted as saying of his Virgin Islands holiday in May. Steve Turner (“A Hard Day’s Write”): while Paul and Ringo went to France and Portugal before taking off for the Virgin Islands. http://clck.ru/AV3r Written by Paul on May 3rd, 1964, on acoustic guitar while on vacation in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. He'd chartered a yacht called the Happy Days along with then-girlfriend Jane Asher, Ringo, and his girlfriend, Maureen Cox.