The plan today was the tried and tested one we’d used all cruise, after breakfast head upstairs to the Grills Terrace and grab some rays and let all the old dears head off the ship. We’d then follow after lunch, do our Xmas shopping and job done! Unfortunately it was grey and overcast and although not cold, but it wasn’t a lot of fun lying on a lounger reading my book, so we joined the hoards processing their way off the ship and up Main Street.
It’s a long boring walk into Gibraltar from the port and doesn’t get interesting until your inside the walls at about one and a half kilometers in. Once there it’s then a shoppers paradise with shop after shop vying to be the one to fill your Xmas present list. Perfume shops, jewellers, gadget shops and booze shops lining both sides of Main Street interspersed with tat shops, designer clothes and the occasional cafe/pub.
Several hundred pounds lighter and an Xmas present list almost complete, we headed back to the ship where I was in desperate need of a lie down. It seemed like we’d been out for hours but we actually made it back just in time for lunch.
Lunch was very nice, pork pie to start, which was actually more of a gala pie without the egg, Followed by chicken pesto tagliatelle. After lunch we headed back to the room and caught the beginning of Mrs Doubtfire on the TV, a film Jane has never seen, so ended up wasting the afternoon watching that. After that we went to the Artisan’s Food Hall to get a cup of tea and then went to sit in the Pavilion and read for an hour or so.
After all that excitement we went to the pub as Jane hadn’t seen the latest Xmas decorations, a line of several trees, all bright and shining. They looked really nice. Then we just went for an explore, up to deck three where we looked in to the Britannia Club dining room, it looks so much nicer than the PG dining room, brighter with less of an old lady boudoir vibe to it. All of the table center pieces were the same. In PG it’s a mix of artificial candles but theirs were uniform. After that we went for a stroll around the promenade deck before heading back to the room to get changed for dinner
Dinner was excellent yet again, a mixture of good food and good chat.