Day 12 - At Sea

At the eleventh hour last night we realised it was steak and eggs for breakfast today so we set the alarm to be sure we got up for breakfast, we had to do that as the restaurant downstairs closes at 9.30am and there was certainly no guarantee we’d be awake. I aired on the side of caution this morning due to us heading north and went with jeans and jumper - 50/50 as to whether the shorts were retired for the rest of the holiday. As we went down for breakfast, the starboard side of the ship was full of lovely sunshine, so I thought I may have been a bit mean giving the shorts a miss. However, my instinct was proved to be correct as soon as we opened one of the doors to the outside deck - bloody Baltic !!

The captain announced that we were indeed sailing in to a Gale, force nine to be precise but front to back so no sided to side roll. In the captains words “It’s going to be a bit rolly polly today”. It was certainly choppy and wobbly but I quite like that. We braved the hot tub on the open decks this afternoon - we really must be crackers, the wind was biting which is fine while you’re in the toastie warm tub, but once you get out it’s like being instantly transported to Antarctica - sun was shining though and no rain !! There was a bloke swimming in the freezing cold pool, I feel that was more bonkers than us, he just kept doing length after length. Turns out it was Greg Rutherford. Sharon advised he was an Olympic swimmer as I’d no idea - she was close bless her, he was track & field and specialised in long jump. He’s on here as he was on master chef and it’s the good food cruise.

Formal night tonight with the evening meal being “Land and Sea” roughly translated steak and lobster. That works for us, we each have one but I get Sharons steak in return for my lobster 🦞

It appears poor old Spain are about to get another battering by the weather, we’ve learned today that Malaga has been evacuated, just hope everyone is ok. To think we had lunch on the beach there just two days ago and it was glorious. Had the captain on again, broadcasting in our stateroom which is very unusual telling everyone to be very careful around the ship. We are to expect listing (had to look it up - means the ship will likely lean from side to side) until 4am and another quote from him was “As Betty Davis says - fasten your seatbelt, it’s gonna be a bumpy night”. I can confirm is quite rough and we’ve not even got to the bay yet. All good fun !!Meer informatie