A day at sea

 Before I start about the way we spent he day, I must mention that we had booked what they call priority Disembarkation fir which you pay extra with a view of getting off first. What they don't tell u is that due to the way the handle this you ar the last people to board which is a bit irritating.  I guess its due to the fact we are on a truck deck where all the trailers have to be tied down first before letting us on. Anyway then we found that the lift for some reason would  not come down to deck 3 and first of after waiting awhile Jennifer said she would o up to the 9th floor and wait for me to arrive in the lift only it never came .

Eventually I gave up waiting and with two heavy bags I just about made it to the 9th Floor , puffin and panting all the way up which Jennifer could hear from a distance.. Hey Ho .

Back to the day when their not much to do and we were in the lounge most of the time to have breakfast , lunch and dinner.  The food for most of the residents was fine except for me due to my NO garlic, onions etc. and all the dishes they had both. So for breakfast it was easy I had ham and cheese on bread and then  for lunch I had a selection of cheese and bread rolls and then for dinner the staff magicked up a sea bream fillet which I had with white rice washed with a glass of red. most enjoyable. We had read books and listened to music to fill the time and the sea was very calm and with a nice sunset which I just missed

An then off to bed as we are due to get up around 05.45 UK time as the ship arrives in Santander at 0700 and they have to have everybody and out of their cabins in time for breakfast. So at five minutes to 0700 they called for drivers on car deck 3 only , that's us, to go to the car and wait to be called forward and by 0715 we were off the ship and heading to immigration where they have the new system to get out of the car and give fingerprints and take a photo, and then stamp the passport. ridiculous.

However being the first of, with perhaps ten other cars we were out on the road withing fifteen minutes and heading South although the Lexus SAT NAV appears to be out of date and we ended up going wrong way and so stopped and turned on TOM TOM and then everything was fine. 

It took us about 3 hours and 45 minutes to get to Salamanca and checked in to he Parador de Salamanca at around 12.30 and then went for lunch in their cafe which was great.  Following this we went for a rest in the room which lasted longer than expected as we were both very tired and although original plan was to visit the old town of Salamanca we decided that ret was more important. Around 6 pm we went for a cup of tea in the bar and then back to the room for a quiet restful evening.

So tomorrow after breakfast we head off to Seville for the night.