Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Day 82 - At Sea




Day 82 – Wednesday 2nd April 2014 – At Sea


The joys of the Cunard bug; the gym was very hard work, as the bug has now implanted itself in my chest.

On deck with the morning lemon tea, I witnessed a phenomenon I had never seen before.  Below a very bright sun was a reversed rainbow, although there was no near clouds, and below the rainbow, another shorter straight lined rainbow.  I took pictures the best I could, but it is difficult to distinguish what I was looking at (the wonders of nature).

At 11.00 went to the theatre for a lecture by Sir Alan Collins, a former high commissioner to Singapore, on how it started off as a fishing village to becoming a world city.  I thoroughly enjoyed the talk which was far superior to what is the usual fare given by the tourist office on port presentations.

Today it is my turn to do the laundry and as usual is a nightmare; from start to finish it took six hours.  Ship board stories of this thankless task are endless.

It is a formal night, and after dinner which at last, I ate meat, as for the past four meals it has been fish, as this is all I can get past my throat.  The theme for the formal night is Royal Ascot Ball and going along, there were not too many ladies hats in evidence.

On deck for some star gazing but unfortunately still too much cloud around, so off to bed for another early night.





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