We decided to go straight to bed after dinner, it had been a hectic day and even though I fancied seeing the featured act in the theatre going to bed was the better choice. We were about to lose an hour because we were moving onto CET from GMT. It’s a shame because the Card Ninja gave a splendid performance full of humour and dexterity according to our table mates. Before we set of for breakfast I had to page our butler, we needed an electrician to come and fix our lights in the bathroom/dressing area after I had managed to fuse them trying to plug Jane’s electric toothbrush into the shaver point in the bathroom.
Only four of us made breakfast, where I had bircher muesli and a cheese and mushroom omelette, different courses of course, very nice, and the omelette was very cheesy. Jane had avocado toast with a poached egg and a side order of crispy bacon. We had an appointment booked with the future cruise sales desk to see if we could rearrange our 2026 cruise, and we did, we changed it for a 16 night cruise on Queen Victoria in Princess Grill in 2027, V708N. Since we were now cruiseless for 2026 we also booked a fly cruise out of Barcelona for May.
After all the excitement and the shock of paying all that money I needed a lie down. I’d pretty much missed all of the Insights Lectures for today, so will have to catch them on the TV. Lunch was a nice sedate affair, there were six of us around the table which meant we spent longer than we should yapping away over a starter of salt and pepper squid and tuna poke bowl followed by a mango mousse for desert.
I spent all of the afternoon trying to resolve my internet issues, I only have the essentials package as I’m not streaming data, but I do want to be able to tkae photos, and back up those photos but for some reason I am struggling to get it to work. I know the isue is with the essentials package as I can use a VPN to bypass any packet snifiiing and connect without issue. I shall have to visit the concierge and see if he can offer a solution as I don’t want to constantly use a VPN.
We’d arranged to meet up with Pam and Max,who are friends who’d been our witnesses in February, for the first of our quiz outings. Jane had a Gala night hair do booked in Mareel, so wouldn’t be there for the quiz, but would join us back in the room for drinks and canapes. I thought the quiz was a bit on the easy side, and fully expected a winning score of 19 or 20 out of 20, so was a bit disappointed with our 15/20 but the winning score was 16/20 which gives me hope for doing better in upcoming quizzes. After our near miss we headed back to our stateroom where we’d requested canapes for four from our butler. We had the bottle of welcome Champagne from embarkation to drink. Matthew our butler did us proud with an excellent selection of skewered prawns, satay chicken and spring rolls.
It was Gala Night with a Black and White theme, the easiest theme to take part in, as all my formal wear is black and white. We’d requested Tequila prawns as a main for dinner. We’d had this in February as it was the then Maitre’d’s speciality, Osman was on holiday then and his Tequila prawns is intended to be a starter and significantly different but as it turned out it was really nice and came with a really delicious mushroom risotto. We also had Crepes Suzette as dessert which as always was delicious.