I’m back on it, even though I hated the alarm going off at 06.50, I dragged my carcass out of my pit and up to the gym for my morning’s run. I came back to the room with a cup of tea from the Lido for Jane. She’s not well, apparently her gills are up, which I think means she has a sore throat. We’d shared a lunch table with a lady who was complaining about the “Cunard cough”, so maybe she had caught it from her. After a shower I breakfasted alone in the Lido, assuming that I would read my book while eating. It wasn’t to be, the Lido was packed with people going off on shore excursions, so I sat with Sarah fom the forum and her husband before returning to the stateroom bearing a second cuppa and a banana.
Jane was up and feeling better, so we decided to get a early start and head into Heraklion for a frappe and to get postcards. We had a complimentary shuttle to he dock gates and it was about 20 minutes stroll from there into town. It’s not a very picturesque place Heraklion, although the Venetian Harbour is pretty enough. After posting the postcards we headed back to the ship for lunch. It was still too early to eat, and I fancied Giros, but we were struggling to find something to fill the time before eating, so back to the ship it was. We’d decided to take time to do the laundry. It’s amazing how much we are creating, some days I’m having four changes: running kit; fencing kit; day wear and evening wear. The standard wash takes 45 minutes, so we sat in the sun on the balcony, before sticking the now clean clothes in the dryer and heading for lunch.
Once lunch was done, the washing was nice and dry. It was time to head up to deck 9 for a little lounging around in the sun. We snagged a couple of beds and it wasn’t very long before Jane saw one of our table companions, Gina, so I plugged myself into music while they sat around chatting. A couple of hours of that and it’s time for tea and a slice of cake.
It was soon Commodore o’clock and the call to deck 10 was overwhelming. Janes cocktail of the day is a return to the Cosmopolitan, while I had a refreshing Red Apple Fizz.
