I had a lie in today, I’ve done the gym five days straight, and it was very bumpy at 6:30 so I thought I’d give it a miss. We went to the buffet for breakfast and the selection there is very good so requested an omelette from the egg fairy. We thought we’d sit in the Carinthia Lounge for a while via a trip to the Pursers desk to get a statement. We’ve about halfway through our OBC, which isn’t too bad as that also includes the service charge. The sun is out, we haven’t seen it for a couple
Category: Sea Days
Today it’s the final sea day of the crossing, we arrive in New York at 06:30 tomorrow. Last night was extra bumpy, so much so, I was almost bumped out of bed at 03:30. It was slightly better for breakfast, but the weather screen on the cabin tv was still reporting Hurricane Force 12 (70kts)with rough seas. On the way to breakfast, Jane wanted to check a Spa offer, various massages for $129, and was hoping that she could use CC the $40 voucher we’d been given for this. Alas no, she couldn’t use it, so she wasn’t going pay
We’ve left New York, heading south for the Caribbean and already the change in temperature is noticeable, it was 22 degrees this afternoon, but it was a bit blowey, interspersed with some heavy showers. We’ve had a lazy morning, with Jane starting to calm down a bit about the burglar alarm issues from yesterday after her friend went around and confirmed all was well. I just had breakfast in the buffet as I’m getting a tasted for the omelettes they prepare there. I took a Bircher muesli pot from the Carinthia Lounge back to the room for her. I went
We lost an hour last night so getting up was a little difficult, so I was sent again to the Carinthia Lounge for a yoghurt pot for Jane. I brought Jane back a bircher muesli pot, nice, and a lemongrass and tapioca pot, not so nice. The sun was out on the port side, so we headed up to the Broadwalk where there were beds out already. We spent a couple of hours in the sun before a lunch of burger and chips in the chef’s galley, Jane had a prawn salad from the buffet. After lunch it was back
Today is our last sea-day, before arriving at Road Town in Tortola tomorrow. The sun is out with a vengeance today, it’s glorious morning. So after breakfast we headed up to the Broadwalk for a bit of sunbathing. This was pretty much all we did all day, sunbathe, lunch and more sunbathing. We ended up in the Corinthia lounge with our dinner companions at Commodore o’clock, here I had a pint of Marston’s Pedigree and Jane had a vodka and coke. It was another Gala night so I was fully penguinified. Dinner was very nice with a delicious belly pork
We’re now truly on our way home and have officially left the Caribbean for the Atlantic. The sun was out early on in the day so we headed up to the. Broadwalk to catch the last of the sun before returning to more wintery climes. At the 12 o’clock announcement the captain said we had some unsettled weather approaching with squalls coming in from the port quarter and true to his word the heavens opened and it chucked it down. We made a dash for the Pavilion Pool and bagged a sunbed there for the rest of the day. Commodore
Today is probably the last chance for some sunshine today, now that we’ve left the Caribbean, it’s a bit cooler, and the wind has changed to a north westerly so it’s a bit breezier than yesterday. We spent the morning, post breakfast, upstairs in the Pavilion Pool which was nice and warm with the sun on it. After lunch Jane went down to the pool on deck six and found a sunbed that was out of the wind. I went back up to twelve to sit by the pool there. Too soon it was Commodore o’clock where I had a
It’s our final day on the ship today, and we are definitely getting nearer New York. We have a grey sky and squally showers passing and the temperature has now dropped a fair bit overnight. We went to the Pursers office to get some more luggage tags for disembarkation and query the fact that I’m seeing some charges from Cunard on my credit card. Normally I wouldn’t see anything until the final total comes out, but apparently these are some pre-auth charges, my new card is obviously more dynamic than the previous one I used. That done Jane headed back
Our last day at sea turned up a bit grey and miserable, but it was warm enough and the sea was flat as a pancake. It was the calmest Biscay crossing that we’ve probably ever had, a markedly different experience from the sail out from Southampton. There were three of the Cunard Insights lectures this morning, Stuart St Paul was up first explaining the technicalities of location shooting. He was followed by Col Tim Collins who carried on from the previous day. Disappointingly we never did find out why he was accused of war crimes. The final and best lecture
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.