Day 21 - At Sea

Day 21 – Thursday 30^th January 2014 – At Sea

Gym

Up early, in fact, in the Gym for 07.15 and this shows the facilities which are available.  A full line of torture machines facing forward looking out over the bows on Deck 9.  The navigation bridge is the next deck below.

Although the gym is unsupervised there are two personnel trainers who are most helpful.  At 09.00 there is a cycle training session for half an hour and they go through hell.  The South African trainer who takes it, I told him he must be a sadist, as he puts these people through hell.  He says, he cannot understand how people on holiday pay to be put through the torture, but as yet, he has never had a complaint.

Gym

I usually spend 60 to 90 minutes in the gym doing a circuit on most of the machines.  They have a television built into them, so you can catch up with the news and the ship’s position, course and speed.  If I remember to take my ear phones, as at the moment, I only read the subtitles.

Sauna

After the gym, it is into the sauna and this is absolutely great.  It is situated in the locker and shower room; just behind the gym.  As you can see, one side has full length windows, and as you sweat away, it is wonderful gazing onto the sea and today from there, I watched flying fishes.

Shower Room View

After about 20 minutes in the sauna, it is into the shower.  This is the view when you step out of the shower and dry yourself off.  The place is never overcrowded, and I find this the ideal way to start off the day.

From here I wander down to the Lido for a light breakfast with lemon tea.

Today’s lecture was given by Bill Miller entitled ‘Flying the Red Ensign, Great British Liners’.With many photographs of these wonderful ships, he gave a very talk and very much appreciated by the theatre audience.

The dance lesson was the Rhumba; I am getting confused with these Latin dances, as to which way I should be wiggling.

The choir is now really starting to get it together, and more members are joining.

Managed to get some bronzy in the afternoon and even started to read one the books I have brought with me.  The sun set was a little special this evening, and I was out with the camera.

Cocktail today was Aperol and a very strange one, not recommended and went back to the GT’s.

Dinner consisted of cauliflower soup/haddock/cheese and biscuits, then off to the theatre to see Mark Donoghue who could sing, played fiddle, guitar, harmonica, piano, a great show.

Finished off in the Golden Lion; entered the trivia wipe out quiz, and we won it.  How’s that then, to finish off the day.