It was a glorious morning, we woke to clear skies and a calm sea. As it was a sea day I had three lectures to attend in the morning, so it was a bit of a rush to get ready and off to breakfast before my 10am start. The first lecture was the astronomer Paul Fellows. His talks have got better and more interesting with every day. Today’s lecture was about volcanic activity within the Solar system. He was followed by a new speaker Colonel Tim Collins, a motivational speaker recounting his experience with the Royal Irish Regiment and SAS. He was followed by Stuart St Paul who talked about his experiences making the movie Bula Quo.
The Cunard Insight lectures took us up to lunch, which we had in the Britannia restaurant. We both had a Seafood Linguini, Cunard really do pasta very well.
It was still glorious outside, but I couldn’t persuade Jane to sit outside, so we ended up in the Chart Room for a posh coffee were we sat and read by one of the big picture windows.
It was our last Formal night of the cruise, this was also the Captain’s cocktail party for Platinum and Diamond WC members, so we headed down for the 7:45 start and joined the queue to shake the captain’s hand as there wasn’t a queue not to. We had bought a twelve bottle wine package prior to starting the cruise, and with this being an eleven night trip we had a spare bottle, if there is such a thing, so we got a bottle of fizz and five glasses for the ladies at and toasted the cruise on our dinner table. The meal was excellent yet again and I had Cullen Skink followed by roast pork and the a banana cake dessert.