Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Day 83 - At Sea




Day 83 – Thursday 3rd April 2014 – At Sea


Back into the dance lessons and progressed with the quickstep certainly taken a liking to this one.

We received an invitation; as we have now moved up to platinum status on our world voyage, to a wine tasting session given by the restaurants sommeliers (wine waiters).

At 14.00, we duly assembled and formed into two groups and were shown four different wines, two white and two red.  We were given the history and merits of each wine and asked our opinion.  All of the wines were from Argentina, so the ship’s wine cellar must not be selling much of this.  There was only one wine which was of any note, and we left not too impressed.

The evening cocktail was Malibu surf, consisting of coconut rum, vodka, blue curacao, shaken with pineapple juice.

It was my turn to order the wine tonight, as with Colin, we make our own choice on alternate nights and our wine waiter, Goran, keeps us right on our choice.  With the dinner, I ordered the best of the Argentine wine, we had this afternoon, and I hope this helped to reduce the stocks.

Star gazing tonight was a greater success, seeing all together, the Plough, Pole Star and Southern Cross and the constellation of Orion lying on its side.


Went to bed happy, being able to see my favourite parts of the night sky, all together.

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