We awoke to find ourselves on a wet morning in
Cherbourg. As predicted by the captain,
the ride did become rocky in the early hours but it didn’t disturb us unduly.
During breakfast the ship carried out a full emergency drill
for the crew – and invited passengers to take part by donning their life
jackets and proceeding to their muster stations. Like us, most passengers didn’t feel that
they had paid for a cruise only to become an unpaid extra in the ship’s reality
drama!
We then went round the ship to take some general photos of
the facilities on board. At this point
we decided that this would be a super ship to be on in term time in the
Caribbean where you could use the outdoor facilities to the full and with very
few or even no children aboard.
There was free wifi in the terminal building, so we made use
of that to update the blog and we never ventured any further away. We weren’t alone, it seems, as the ship
seemed to have a good number of people on board at any time during the day.
We went to our last quiz on board – unusually for us an
individual quiz which you had to do alone.
We both entered, but Elizabeth won after a tie breaker with another
person over who would get the nearest date to when Sir Francis Drake set off on
his circumnavigation of the world. I
trailed two points behind. I mean, how
was I to know anything about the Twilight Books, that Jake the Jailbird features in ‘Monopoly’
and that Matisse had said that creativity takes ‘courage’ rather than ‘time’?! I did know about hyperactivity however and
that earned me an advantageous point.
As a result of winning the quiz and keeping the family’s
recent cruise tradition alive, Elizabeth gained a star in her winner’s
folder. When the prizes were given out later
in the evening, she had earned a P&O memory stick for her trouble which she
says she will treasure and use for the notes she makes on cruises!
It was a busy entertainment evening. The
Headliners gave the last of their four performances – this time it was ‘Thunderstruck’ which was a rock concert
recalling some great hits of the past.
Again it was an amazing show and it made me wonder why it was that I
hadn’t taken my camera in to the previous shows. After that it was some more quick packing
then shopping to spend what remained of our on board credit allowance and then
we watched the Ventura Orchestra in the Atrium playing Glenn Miller hits. We moved on again to the Havana Bar to see 'Soundwave' doing a warm-up act for us as we waited for Gary
Ryan to perform as Neil Diamond again – but this time with camera! – and Andrew Browning
as George Michael and Elizabeth says he was very good. They were both happy to pose for photos
during their acts!
We lingered by the packed out Tamarind Club to listen to ‘Dynamite Groove’ performing pop songs
and then our jaws dropped at the continuing length of the queue at the
photography shop. We recognised a couple
we had dined with earlier in the week.
They were almost at the front of the queue and said they had been
queuing for well over an hour to get to where they were! What a lovely way to spend your last evening
on board!
By this time it was around midnight and we finally retreated
to our cabin where we were happy to turn our clocks back an hour to get back to
UK time!
And so another cruise ends – my 19th and Elizabeth’s 20th.
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