Day 2-At Sea

Although the clocks went forwards during the night, we weren’t confused this morning.  But we were a bit later getting moving as our bodies hadn’t caught up.

The morning followed the same pattern of coffee in the cabin followed by breakfast in Medina. We then did a few laps of the deck - well they would have been had not a small part been closed for maintenance so we couldn’t get all the way round.

As there were no talks or classes we were interested in, we rested in the cabin then went for a lightish lunch on Horizon, followed by a class in acrylic painting for me (first time ever with acrylic and the result wasn’t half bad) and another talk for Steve by the same guy who’d talked about ballooning yesterday. This one was a balloon event over London - it was as good as the one yesterday.

Then I went to yoga which wasn’t really like any yoga class I’ve been to before. But we did finally manage a couple of warrior poses and a cobra but not much else. Hardish work - will I go again - I don’t know.

By now it’s 6pm but still light. Steve was all for missing out the jacuzzi but I decided to go. The wind was blowing a hoolie and we are reaching Arctic temperatures but with a beanie on it was really lovely once in the jacuzzi - getting out wasn’t so much fun. Steve did decide to join me after a short while. Once again the deck was like the Marie Celeste - but getting less surprising.

Then back to the cabin for a hot shower and short relax before dinner. It’s a posh night tonight, preceded by the  Captain’s welcome party. But we’ve decided to give that a miss and head back to Anderson’s. Then dinner in Medina which will be another first, although we did the same thing on Britannia last Christmas, just a different restaurant name.

Dinner was good - not outstanding but still very enjoyable. We shared a table and had quite a laugh. We shared what we were all doing tomorrow. When we said we were kayaking one of the couples said that had wanted to so that but hadn’t because they didn’t want to do the full submersion roll - really??!! In October, in the North Sea ??!!  No!! That definitely won’t be happening but we did have a good laugh about it.

Anyway we then had a drink in Carmen’s with the same band as yesterday doing 89’s music - again very good. But most importantly we decided what we would wear in the morning.

And on that note - off to sleep!

But one last comment - 2 days at sea with loads of bumps, officially described as rough seas force 7 and not one iota of seasickness so I’m delighted. The tablets obviously do work.