Dutch Harbour and place to forget.

I think they may be a bit desperate in looking at places to land based on the visit to Kodiak and now Dutch Harbour.

Having had a night with the balcony door open with the sound of wind and sea neither of us really slept well and so I called the butler and got a little more cross this time and then went off for breakfast.

Upon returning to our suite we now had three engineers working on the system, so it was one engineer the first call out , then two for the second call out and now three engineers on this third call out. At this rate I will have half the ships company on my doorstep by the end of the cruise if they don't fix it. We gathered our things for the trip in to Unalaska where where we were to be taken by a typical yellow school bus where they are due to make four stops, two at  museums, one at a Hotel in the middle of town and also a visit to the Russian Church which was by the sea front. The museum was again very small and we decided to stay on the bus and the next stop was the Aleutian Hotel but unfortunately today the café was closed but you can by some tourist stuff and this place was barren, a bit like the old 1970’s Dubai town with two shops and a hotel and a some ships spares people. So again we decided to stay on the bus which then drove about 50 yards down the road to another museum and we though the bus would continue to the church on the waterfront and then the driver announced that we could not go there as a senior member of the  Russian Church and there was a funeral taking place and they did not want foreign bloody tourist gawking and taking photos but if we wanted to go the lady has a friend who has a taxi who will take you there??? Am I being suspicious and she is try to general income for a friend by dropping us off early. The other funny thing  was on board was an American Chinese student who was to give a running commentary on the area and clearly the female bus driver thought she could do it better and kept interrupting and disputing with him some of the facts. Oh lovely days.
So after twenty minutes or s we arrived back at the port and then Jennifer decided she would like a walk on the ground and stayed on the bus back to the first museum with a view to walk back to the ship. Jennifer found the WW2 museum to be quite interesting and it focused on the Japanese invasion, although rather limited, of Western Alaska in the Aleutian Islands where they attacked the American Forces base. This area is great for hiking, fishing of course both sea and lake, We left Dutch Harbour just after lunch and Jennifer was looking out the window saw a group of hump back whales jumping (breaching) completely out of the sea but of course by the time the camera was ready they were half way to Jamaica.
As usual we do not tend to join all the lectures and card and other games on board but if we want to watch any lecture you can see them on the TV in the room. I have watched some of the presenters in the past and a lot of it seems to be have been gleaned by them from Wikipedia and similar and in case we tend to research the areas we plan to visit in great depth even before booking and so we think we know enough, which of course may be wrong.
As previously mentioned what is laughingly called the Computer Room ( 8 desks and one computer) now has a sign on it saying “The Officer is not available due to Technical Difficulties”  which says it all.
We decided to risk going to the Italian restaurant which is all Garlic and Onions but when booking the table at lunchtime I raised this matter with Maitre D and he said he would discuss with the Chef to ensure everything is fine for me, we shall see.
So following a brief glass in suite we went to the Restaurant where immediately the Head Chef ( an Italian) came out to discuss my menu for the evening and don't worry I will make you a special pasta for a main course which is safe for you to eat. We agreed on linguine pasta with seafood and tomato sauce and I must say it the best pasta I have had in absolutely years and just hope there is nothing nasty in it which I had perhaps forgotten to mention. we  also saw Jerry and Muira the other side of the restaurant and we tied up at the end of the mean and will have a joint table tomorrow.
We are not really in to shows and I would be happy if they  killed all the entertainment and reduced the price. However I think I am in the minority here …..
Ando so to bed and music …

NB Cannot do photos on this slow internet which only just about allows email and that takes ages to download. Actually I think the upload is faster than the download