Thursday, 27 February 2014

Day 44 - At Sea




Day 44 – Sunday 23rd February 2014 – At Sea

As it is a Sunday after the gym, I go into the Lido for breakfast, the big help your self restaurant on deck 9, this is normally well populated at any time of the day.

Normally, Cristina the cabin stewardess does our cabin around lunchtime and I take myself off to one of the deck 3 loungers with a book and relax for an hour.

Dance lesson for the first time was the slow foxtrot, cannot quite get the hang of this one, time will tell, if I can master it.

It is a very pleasant afternoon and spent time building up the bronzy, there never seems to be many on the open deck in the late afternoon, maybe most are having a sleep or staying on their cabin balconies.

It is another formal night for the world cruisers, Captain’s cocktail party to meet his senior officers.  Mixed with the Engineers again, the Deputy Chief, and two 3rd Engineers, one of which is a lady, who has also sailed on the tall ships, Stavros and Tenacious.  The information I got from the Deputy Chief on how sophisticated and reliable the computer control systems are within the engine room was mind blowing.

A very special night, as myself and Colin, having been invited onto the Chief Engineer’s (Jason Turnbull) dining table, which was also co-hosted by the Technical Procurement Officer (Paul Edwards).  Five other guests were also invited to the table.  I thoroughly enjoyed the meal of Thai fish cakes/lamb/soufflé and the conversation and companions were excellent.

Finished off in the Golden Lion for the Karaoke session, this is always a lot of fun, and at this time of the night, nobody really cares if the performers are good or bad.

I went off to bed after another different, but very enjoyable day.





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