Sunday 26^th April 2015 – Day at Sea.

We decided to give this Captain two more chances to impress us!

First of all in the church service he was, unfortunately, his usual monotone self and when reminding us about the charities supported by the ship joked (again) about asking the congregation to make large contributions to his favourite charity – the one that looks after all the sailors’ girlfriends in every port… not funny – and wholly inappropriate…

Finally got our fifth song from Lee that we are going to sing at the big concert on 30^th and were disappointed that it wasn’t the promised Bohemian Rhapsody... There was an unannounced photo shoot of the choir which led to lots of protests that we weren’t dressed in our finery and requests that perhaps it could be postponed until the day of the concert. But when push came to shove, Nesta was the only one who stood her ground when the photo went ahead and refused to join the photograph. She was not a happy bunny…

We went to our final World Voyage cocktail party in the evening and listened to the Captain’s final speech. He included a few jokes but was once again underwhelming. He doesn’t circulate and chat with guests (he’s never even come near us!) and we both think that this is an increasingly important part of the job. Captain Wells managed to do it without diluting his professionalism.

We did manage a few additional drinks (but one red wine served to Ian was corked!) and then went into the restaurant to see Robert and Leo in what could well be our last meal in the restaurant.

Finally we went and drank, smoked and danced in G32 (the nightclub) with the gang – but left shortly after midnight.

The wind had now become a Force 7, near gale - and there is a moderate sea running (do you like my nautical terminology?!) but this ship is excellent. There was hardly any movement and we both had a good night’s sleep.