We arrived early morning at the port of Kodiak which is primarily a fishing port and shortly afterwards they delivered the breakfast to our room. We had hoped to sit on the balcony but it was not warm enough so we stayed in the suite.
After having recovered from breakfast we took the shuttle bus in to town and wandered around for about an hour which was even much to long to see it all. It had a Ford Car showroom, a bank and few shops and a Russian Church and Museum. Jennifer went to look in the Russian Church but it was closed and then subsequently paid $5.00 to walk around a museum a lot smaller than our house in Weybridge but she said it was interesting but no ecstatic about it. Apparently is looked at early man in the area and the fishing heritage. There were lots of fishing boats in the harbour and many Sea Freight Chilled Containers stacked up which no doubt contained, ort will contain fish for the overseas markets. Apparently there are about 6500 residents in this town but hardly a sight of this number anywhere so they must all be out on fishing boats.
We caught the 12.00 hrs shuttle back to the ship and went to the promenade patio café for a light lunch and with Noels diet requirement to be considered. So he ordered a Hot Dog and Bun only with fries, simple yes, but it came with a piece of bacon which was small and would cause an issue, but as the waiter said No Onions Sir except two minutes in to the bun, guess what there were onions. They all apologised most profusely but how difficult is it to put a hot dog on a bun without all the crap that goes with it. In the later afternoon Jennifer went for an hour long massage in the Spa and Noel had a quick ziz and did some more photo updating in Blogger but it is so painfully slow you feel like screaming. Jennifer got back from her massage and did a F1 pitstop change and we headed down to the main restaurant for the Formal night to meet our host who turned out to be the guy who manages all the Butlers on the ship. Yes this ship is where you have you own personal butler to take care of everything. Anyway the table comprised of the Mumbai born host, an English couple for Southampton on there 98th Cruise and two single lades and one from Bolton near where was raised. The service speed was just a bit slower than the internet speed and it took almost 35 minutes to get the first course and then another approx. 35 minutes for the main course to arrive and unfortunately mine was also incorrect as it had asparagus on the fish. So I said to the waiter that I ordered without the asparagus and so he took it away for 20 seconds, whipped off the asparagus and gave it back. What I asked for was a completely new bit of fish not contaminated with natural juices from the asparagus, so I will take this up with the Boss. When you consider we sat down at the table at 19.50 and at 21.45 desert was offered the couple from Southampton left without so they could see the show. Our host then made it apparent that he wanted to leave asap as he was probably embarrassed like hell.
We had planned to go for a goodnight drink in the observatory bar but it was too late and we got back to the room to see that the engineers were just about finishing trying to solve why the heating part of the aircon was not working as the room was very cold no matter high the thermostat was set. The parting words of the Chinese engineer was keep you curtains closed to improve warmth!!!!
Not looking for our review of Silversea at the moment and Seabourn are looking quite brilliant.
