A
slightly restless night getting used to a moving creaking vessel but we awoke
at 0800 for morning cuppa and then to breakfast. If you want the full English
breakfast it would last me for the complete day so Noel chose the scrambled egg
with bacon and Jennifer poached eggs which arrived and cooked to her liking. We
shared a table for breakfast and sat next to a couple who came from Camberley
and he was semi-retired but was and is still in the construction business and
he had lived in New York and also Delhi.
It
appears to be mostly Brits on this boat which is nice compared to other cruises
we have done, we have done not many, where it was mostly Americans.
Jennifer
went off to do Line dancing??? this morning and Noel went off to collect the
info for the on-board internet and this
took a little longer than expected as a number of let’s say older folk had just
got a IPad or similar for Christmas in advance of their trip and were looking
for assistance on how to use it and what’s a password? And oh you meant my Date
of Birth and not the instructors. Oh dear.
Got
back to the cabin and started the blogging as you must do it as you go along or
its quickly forgotten and tried the internet connection which is as expected
very slow and not possible to use Outlook and you can only use webmail which
eats up minutes of course, so as in the past take the pc ashore and look for a
decent connection.
Jennifer
came back from the Line dancing and it was packed but good fun she said as she
slumped in to the chair exhausted.
We
had a quiet afternoon in the cabin and then with horror saw the events in Paris
with many dead at a cartoon newspaper. This is appalling and all in the name of
religion???
The
canapés arrived around five pm and then we opened a bottle of Chablis for a
quick glass before heading to the Freedom Dining restaurant for Dinner. On board this ship you can book in advance
where and when you want to sit, either a table for two or join a table but all
at a fixed time (6.30 and 8.30)and that’s what you have for the length of your
cruise. This we don’t like and so we chose the Freedom Dining option where you
can arrive at any time after 17.45 and you can opt for either a table for two or
join a larger table.
So
we had a table for two and then had negotiate with the wine waiter how to turn
the so called gift voucher into our booklet of twelve wines for the cruise. The
wine waiter said I had the wrong bits of paper and so Jennifer offered to go
back to the cabin to get the last bit of paper which was the receipt and this
happened to be the correct piece of paper and so we enjoyed a nice bottle of
Chilean Cabernet and left some for the next day.
The
film showing in the cinema was not of interest to us and neither was the first
show of the cruise and so back to the room for an evening of TV, we watched an
old cop series called ‘Life on Mars’ which is always good fun to watch. The
ship was bouncing around quite a bit tonight and so we hope we don’t fall out
of bed overnight. The clocks go forward one hour tonight and so one hour less
sleep.
