Another restful day.

Not much time report today as we stayed on board in dock owing to poor old Rog having developed a cold. 🤧 He's certainly not the first in our group and on board there are lots of coughs and sniffles. There are a lot of Germans on this cruise and we don't like them because they steal our food 😠 If you don't stand over the toaster ready to remove the toast when popped they'll help themselves. Dad ordered an omlette the other morning and a German did also, so the cook made one big one. When it was cooked he cut it in half and put on two plates. Wouldn't you know it the German took both plates 🤔 dad was standing right there waiting. Even the cook wasn't amused. Then today our dear 80yr old Maureen had her tomato soup stolen from under her nose when she put it down to get some bread. You sure can go off some people. There's 124 passengers I think. Along with our group apparently there are another couple from Auckland who I haven't come across yet. Quite a few English a few Americans and a huge group of Germans. We're enjoying the cruise. The Douros is a very pretty river with lovely landscapes. The food is quite good. Plenty of beautiful fresh fruit at each meal time. The staff are pretty good too and most speak English fairly well. I made my first purchase today. Spotted a silver filigree pendant in the ship shop and since I don't have a short pendant I decided to get it as a nice momento of our trip. I saved some euro by not buying the chain which is sold separately. We aren't holiday shoppers and my suitcase is already chocka so not really tempted. Laundry been quite easy to keep up to date cause our room has the big window which we can open plus we are getting heaps of afternoon sun. So that's been great. Tomorrow afternoon we have an excursion booked so you might get a more interesting report and photos.Read more