We had our usual breakfast just in time before they close the buffet. Noel is still watching diet and has the same boring breakfast each morning of a little bit of Muesli and two Weetabix and a yogurt. Of course all around are people starting with fruits and yogurts and then moving on to the full English, Its far to much for me and Jennifer. Likewise at lunchtime we eat lightly but there are people with plates full of food and we wonder if they do the same at night.
Noels tummy, for the want of a better word, is playing up due to the soup from yesterday and so we are spending the morning on the ship and we might go away ashore this afternoon if things have improved.
I forgot to mention that that when we had our first night on board and we were complaining about the seating arrangements and timing, there was an Elderly American and his daughter travelling together on his ‘bucket list’ and they had booked through and agent in California and it seems like the agent screwed up badly with their arrangements. First of all they could have travelled from from San Francisco to London and then up to Newcastle about 14/15 hours but they were put on flights from LAX to Portland Oregon and then to Amsterdam and then on to Newcastle taking almost 36 hours and from arriving at Newcastle Airport they went straight to the ship. That was tiring enough and then they checked in to the room and of course someone assumed that with a male and female travelling with the same surname they were a married couple and so they gave them a double bed instead of two singles as requested and this was only corrected the next day as the crew was to busy. Ridiculous and so one can understand why they were so upset when we sat down to dinner. Did I mention how noisy the restaurant was? you could hardly hear yourself speak with table so close to each other .
So after a light lunch we decided that we would stay on board as it was safer for Noel in his current state and so we stayed in the Cabin and passed the time of day by sleeping and Jennifer doing some sewing and reading. Later in the day they delivered the canapés which looked good although when chewing on the smoked Salmon on toast came across a very hard bit??? which after a bit of investigation turned out to be a part of one of Noels rear Molar teeth, Damn.
So off we went to the Medical centre where they could arrange a referral to a Dentist in Bergen, and from there back to cabin to arrange an appointment with my Dentist on Monday and also phone the travel insurance company to let them know of this new occurrence.So tomorrow in Bergen we will visit a Dentist at some time during the day and also the port to try and sample some seafood for lunch, all being well. I forgot to mention that whilst as Guest relations we checked on the cabin account and yes the web based cabin account does not work due to poor Internet Wi-Fi, which seems strange for a ship based
In the evening it was ‘British Night’ and all the food was of British heritage but with a German Chief Chef and Asian cooks you can guess how the Bakewell Tart turned out, nothing like the real thing. Noel had the roast beef and Yorkshire pud which was very good whilst Jennifer had the best British dish of them all Chicken Curry Marsala and rice.
We spent about 45 minutes in the observatory lounge watching the mountains and villages slide by in the Nordfjord and then headed back to the cabin just after nine pm for some blogging and reading.
So an exciting day tomorrow a visit to a Norwegian Dentist, cant say that I am looking forward to it.
