Friday 25/4/25 – 8 months til Christmas!
Dear Elsie
Today was a deliciously quiet day at sea. When I woke up this morning and looked outside, the moon and Venus were one above the other. This was 7.22am.
Not quite an hour later, the sun was burning through the morning mist and shining its light on a passing tanker.
We had a lazy lie in with no formal exercise done. I did do some work and then around 10am we went for breakfast. By 11.30am, in ship-appropriate dress we went to the main theatre.
There, the Master and the Chief Officers came out to say hello.
There was also a little dance team that impressed us with their moves.
This afternoon, we lazed around a bit. I did a fraction more work and we had a call with Julian who is cat-sitting in Cape Town. We are looking forward to him joining us in a couple of weeks…less than 2 weeks in fact.
The bulk of the passengers on this ship have been onboard since they left Genoa on about 4th January. I don’t know how they have done it. Their formal round the world cruise ends on 5th May back in Genoa. On 6th May they will have to go back to the real world. The couple we spoke to the other day are full time travellers so their plan is to do a train trip, then hop on a plane and fly to northern Europe where they do another cruise. We too hop on a plane as soon as we get off this ship and fly to Istanbul where Julian meets us for a shorter Med cruise. We are really enjoying ourselves & lapping up each day. We have learned a few things on this cruise. We don’t need a drinks package. We don’t need an Aurea upgrade, but we do appreciate the balcony. We enjoy going to the evening sit down dinners where our attentive waiter is happy to serve us. Last night we went to the buffet for our evening meal for a change. I really enjoyed that too. Here’s some of the food!
Mike’s favourite spot!
Spoilt for choice. Tonight we will go to the main dining room.
David meantime, has arrived in Betty’s Bay for a short getaway with Anna’s family..
Such a great photo.
Tonight the clocks go back another hour so we’ll be 2 hours behind Cape Town. I don’t think it will be for long because the Canary Islands (Tuesday) are UK time. Dakar is 2 hours earlier, so we have to change our clocks for our stop there tomorrow.
Genesis 1:9-10
Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
It’s not about now – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Gran xx 🙂