There were at least 100 guests on the tour up to the North Cape drive today which was a three hour return trip to see a metal map of the world and visit some tourist stores in a concrete building, not exactly our cup of tea for about £ 90 each as Noel is not in love with coaches. So instead we stayed on the ship and watched the crew have their safety drill by lowering the lifeboats and driving them around the harbour for a bit of fun.
This, of course, was just a test but apparently on another cruise and guest misinterpreted what was going on and threw herself of the ship in to the water below and therefore had to be saved. Apparently the crew thought it was rather amusing although the female guest was not of the same opinion.
The safety check lasted about 90 minutes with the majority of the crew being involved but as a result of this the food service at lunchtime had to be changed and the restaurant we would normally use was going to be closed and so we went to the café to have a shared pizza which was actually very good. In the afternoon Jennifer did some more reading and Noel updated the blog but added a new page covering the reason why we are on this cruise and also the history of same which is most interesting.
We had stopped at a couple of ports and some for a list as then minutes, a real fast turn around
For dinner Jennifer had the steak and Noel the cod and both were very good and then we sat outside the restaurant and watched the world slip by. The ship has a windows cleaning system on board much like a car window wash system but more powerful and really cleans the windows up a treat as they get covered with salt water.
So this evening it was time to watch dome football nd after a few minutes trying to locate the appropriate channel and it was my intention to watch the MNC game only to find that both games were on the same channel, one after the other and so I had to watch Arsenal but was not going to stop up until after midnight to see the second game . There is more football tomorrow so let see what game they put on first.
