Saturday 9th September- Crossing the North Sea to Norway

We awoke in the morning with the sun streaming through the windows and had a cup of tea whilst the sea rushed by. Breakfast was being served between 0800 and 1000 in the Spey restaurant which is where we headed for our first taste of cruise breakfast.

Sea, nothing but Sea

Well the restaurant was already very busy with the majority of people tucking in to their eggs and bacon etc with some plates piled very high and however can they eat that amount god only knows. By comparison we were very stringent in knowing that we should not eat to much and put on weight and also Noel has to watch what he eats particularly;y having discussed the requirements with his Dietician it was important to follow this through. So Noel had some muesli and and Weetabix and yogurt and Jennifer some fruits and a yogurt quite light really by comparison.
Noel had a meeting planned with the Maitre D and Chef to discuss his dietary requirement and was rather surprised when he got to the meeting place to find about another 50 or so people with all sorts of eating disorders. There was a presentation by the zee German chef, who was difficult to understand, and then the another member of the service crew, this time in part Indonesian and part English, also a little difficult to understand, but it became clear you could have most things and if you tell them your allergy they will adapt the meal to suit. This sounded very good, perhaps to good to be true, but to be fair it did work well.

After this little excitement we went back to the cabin and watch the world go by from the balcony until lunchtime where we both had a sandwich, self made, and a little tea cake and yet again people were walking around with large plate full of food, ughh!!
The afternoon was spent listening to music and Jennifer spending some on her sewing and then before dinner we received some canapés in the cabin and so enjoyed same on the balcony with a glass or two of Chardonnay. We tried our new table for two in the lower restaurant and the service was far better than upstairs and the room was much quieter and as it was still light it was pleasant looking out of the window's whilst enjoying dinner. Following dinner we headed up the observatory bar which was busy and noisy and then found another bar which was a lot quieter but still that musac playing.
So around 1030 we headed back to the cabin for some light reading and a quick look at the news.