First thing this morning all guests had to go for a Covid test which was quite quick and painless ad then on t breakfast.
Patmos has the reputation of being historically a very strong religious Island which is quite with lovely street and nice little shops, and then you ready again where the locals are waiting for the arrival of a cruise ship so they can scam them over trinkets, T shirts, Taxis , food and drink. In view of Noels issues over the past few days we waited an hour after breakfast and then decided that walking the streets of a little town with traders pestering you all the time in 30 degrees of heat was not the best way to spend our time and so we decided to stay on board.
Now comes the exiting bit in that Jennifer went to do our clothes washing in the on board free laundry which was quite large and containing 6 sets of washers and dryers .During about lunchtime the ship staff opened what is called the Marina at the beck of the ship where if you were so inclined you can borrow kayaks, or take rides in inflatable tyres or the yellow banana, not for us though. Looking at the age of some of the guests one wonders how many heart attacks there will be. We had lunch outside in the shade where again the staff are very attentive and its almost like you have to drink out the bar or they will have to chuck it away, but free flowing it certainly is.
During the day its been interesting to catch up with the practise at the Monaco F1 GP and when typing am waiting for Qualifying to start, but clearly something is wrong with Ricciardo this year and it looks like , according to the F1 press , that he wont last the season out and will be replaced, let us see. In addition I found out that the Liverpool vs Real Madrid game is taking place tonight and hopefully will be on TV so keeping fingers crossed, but if not I have set it up to be recorded at home. Its now about 4.30 pm and Jennifer has just returned from her toenail extravaganza and seems pleased with the result.
We have been using the ships (free?) Wi-Fi which is fine but of course slow as it is Satellite based and ok for email/What's app/ and checking the general news but no use for uploading photos of our trip which the numbers are slowly mounting.
Tonight is a farewell for many of the guests who have had either a one week or two week cruise so there will be a band by the pool and food tables etc , so lets see what happens. Well they had the usual trooping around of the staff to the sound of music. The evening was interrupted by an announcement, most unusual, that the planned trips for tomorrow to Athens and the Acropolis have had to be cancelled due to the Greek government agreeing to a bicycle race around the streets which essentially means that most of Athens roads have been closed although getting to the airport should not be a problem they say. When this was announced we were in the main restaurant and peoples faces just dropped like that is what we cam for , ah well that's life.
Tonight Noel watched the European Champions League cup final in Paris which was delayed by security issues ( only in France do you get security issues in football) and it started about 40 minutes late with some stupid French singer and dancers that nobody was interested in being booed through out. Its like going to a strip show and they we thought you might like to see a bit of Turandot whilst your waiting..
Finally at least I was beginning to start to feel a little better and I think I know what caused the problems
