Following several days of really quite rough seas in to and out of Russia and having moved more South West in the direction of Norther Japan and passing by a row of Islands the sea has really subsided and last night we got a good nights sleep with rolling around in bed. Yesterday evening we also had to fill out the Japanese Immigration forms which we returned this morning and including the stops on the Norther Island Hokkaido we will be in Japan for 24 days.
The weather is a bit misty this morning after we returned from breakfast and chatted to the staff who are servicing the room. On Silver Sea they give you your own butler, it says on the brochure , who you can call at any time for make a table reservation or bring you tea or clean your shoes and/spectacles which sounds good but actually my shoes and spectacles are clean and I can easily make a table reservation but he is need for a cup of tea. For some reason the American based ships don't allow you to have a kettle in your room to make a cuppa and we understand it is due to safety concerns with someone leaving the kettle on and setting off all the water spray system. However somebody told us that Cunard do have a full set of cups and kettle in their suites so who is right,I do not know but we would prefer to be able to make our own cuppa without having to call somebody.
Today is an all at sea day and we arrive in the Port of Kushiro tomorrow morning and we are on the Kushiro Highlights tour and we sincerely hope that the highlights of Kushiro are better than those in Petr… etc.
No doubt we will have to put the clocks back again another hour tonight which should bring ships time in line to Japan time but to be frank we think we will find this tour much better but tomorrow we will know for sure.
In the evening we returned to La Terraza for dinner which was really good again with the Chef coming to discuss my choices, what more could you want. We had a brief stop in the main bar and lounge and then back to suite where we are lose another hour and we have to go through Japanese Immigration tomorrow before going on our tour
