Well tomorrow morning at around 0730 the ship will arrive back in Dover and by 0830 is we hope to be able to collect the car and head off for home. But as for today it started with breakfast and we met our mate Ted Collins who was have some trouble with his flash unit on his Leica camera and then realising it must be the battery and o soon after he went back to his cabin to charge it up, probably see him later over lunch.
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After breakfast we headed to Seabourn Square and noticed that shop was already open and after about 25 minutes had pretty much spent all of our on board credit. The lady totally the bill was getting rather confused and ended up trying to charge us for somebody's else stuff but she did correct it. We then decided to return to the cabin with our goodies and finish our ablutions with Jennifer reading and the undersigned keeping the blogs, banks account checks, monitoring email, in fact all the usual stuff.
We had lunch on the patio deck but it was quite windy as of course we were moving when in the past we have mostly been stopped over lunch time. Because it was so windy there were few passengers there, perhaps about 10/15 and presume the rest were in the restaurant or Colonnade. Following lunch we returned to the room and started packing our suitcases which will be collected this evening for us to reclaim tomorrow morning in Dover Harbour.
So as we have to dress smartly tonight as we will be going the the Thomas Keller Chop House, reminiscent of the original New York Chophouse style..
It was a very nice dinner and Jennifer had the lobster and Noel the veal chop washed down with a couple of glasses of something.Following dinner we went to the Observatory bar as we did not fancy the show and wanted a quiet night as Jennifer is still suffering from her cold.
Upon returning the the room we finalised the suitcases and placed them outside the cabin door to await overnight collection.
Well that about it for this series of travel blog as tomorrow we get up and have a quick breakfast and be off the ship around 0830 collect the car and head off with a stop via Costco to pick up some basics and bbq stuff for Sunday as our daughter in law and grandchildren will be joining us.
Its been an enjoyable and interesting trip and you meet some really interesting people on these more expensive cruises and apart from Noel tummy issues and Jen’s cold all was well in the Groves camp. We will move down a groove for the next break will be in the caravan, what a comedown!!