Yet another day for the clocks to go back, so another lie in, which made my 7am gym session almost seem civilised. The gym is very busy at this time, not full, as there were free treadmills, but not far off. The swell was minimal this morning, which made my run more pleasant, I only had to hold on with one hand to maintain my balance.
After a shower it was off to the MDR for breakfast, muesli followed by kippers and poached eggs. There are fewer insights lectures today, the first was at 11am, so we went to the Pavilion Pool to chill out for a while.
I got to Illuminations about 10 minutes early to find the place rammed, it was about QE2 so I assume it was a nostalgia trip for most of the attendees. I didn’t fancy messing around trying to squeeze into a seat so headed back up to Jane on deck 12.
We were back in the MDR for lunch, mackerel starter, calf’s liver main with trifle to follow. Very nice.
After lunch we took a stroll to find the Voyage Sales office, it’s tucked out of the way on deck 3 forward near the entrance to the theatre on the port side. We walked past the queue for the planetarium, huge. You have to get tickets at 9am for the show at ConneXions and they get snapped up really quickly.
After that we went to find somewhere to sit and read, but it’s busy as hell, the weather has closed in, with rain and fog, and everyone is inside, we settled for the Commodore Club and sat looking out at the waves listening to the fog horn going off every minute or so. From there we popped back to the Voyage Sales office at 15:00 to see about booking our next cruise, but it never opened again today, instead we were fascinated by the waves rising past the windows on the games corridor. Watching the sea swirling past is very calming, it’s akin to staring at a fire. My first lecture of the day was Michael Kushner and the War in the Atlantic, good, but not as good as his Enigma lecture. After that it was Commodore o’clock with another Doombar for me and a QEII for Jane followed by a Ginger Cosmo.
Dinner was good as usual, Jan had lamb chops, which was surprising since they were the Canyon Spa mains on the menu, which usually means small portions and Jane doesn’t do small portions when it involves lamb chops, but a word with Antonio meant she got three cops and disaster was averted. My dinner was less complicated, crispy pork cheeks to start, followed by turkey ballotine and a Jaffa cake with merengues. All very nice. We’d seen the show scheduled several times before so we decided to call it an early night, especially since the clocks weren’t going back and tomorrow only has 24 hours, I’m feeling somewhat shortchanged.
