A day at sea

I was up at about 7:30 and went for a walk on deck 10, around the jogging track. It was still quite dark. Spain is on the same time zone as much of Europe as far as Poland, despite being very close to the GMT line. Portugal, wisely, is on the same time zone as GMT.

The ship’s wake early in the morning

We had tea and coffee delivered to our suite and then went up to the Marquee for a late breakfast. Ian had Greek yoghurt and pumpkin pancakes, while I had a quinoa wellness breakfast. 

I joined an art class doing oil pastel sunset scenes. I think I did OK?

We had lunch at the Marquee - Ian had calamari and a burger while I had some dips and a tuna sandwich, then ice cream.

After a rest in our suite, we went to bingo and trivia. No good for either!

We had booked to see the Future Cruise Consultant at 6 pm. We had a booking for a fabulous Middle East to Athens cruise in March/April.  But given recent events in Israel and Gaza, the ports were being revised. Obviously our two days in Jerusalem would be cancelled, but they had also cancelled Alexandria which takes the pyramids out. And who knows what the situation will be there in a few months? So we have decided to cancel that cruise. And now we are looking at Tokyo to Vancouver via Alaska. We looked at some options and will likely make a decision soon.

Beautiful flowers throughout
the ship

A view we never tire of

We went to a “meet and greet” for the Silversea Passengers Facebook group. It was good to put some faces to names as the group is quite active. I had posted reviews of the ship so far and for Kaiseki on Facebook, and had lots of feedback agreeing.

We went to Atlantide again for dinner. We both had foie gras for entree, with a lovely dessert wine, and then lobster tail for main. The courses are not enormous as three courses are definitely possible. Ian had a lemon meringue pie and I had an orange creme caramel. All rich food though! 

Lobster tail

Lemon meringue pie

Orange creme caramel

We went to bed by 10:30.