Thursday, 3 April 2014

Aurora at sea (part 1)

Indian Ocean – Part 1
31st March 2014

Today we are in the middle of the Indian Ocean approaching the coast of  South Africa.  Our next port of call is Port Elizabeth.

I have had a complaint about our blog, not including photographs of the ship, so I thought I would do a blog about what is on board.


Our itinerary has been pretty hectic for the first part of this cruise so we spend most of the time recovering from our excursions taken the day before.  So at present our typical day at sea begins with breakfast.   We usually dine at the Medina Restaurant, which is silver service.   After which I have to go and visit the shops, just to see what offers they have on that particular day.  We then do a quick walk around the Promenade Deck.  Geoffrey usually does one mile (3.1/2 laps), whereas Doreen just does the one lap.  I developed a blister on my foot after Singapore, so I am being extra careful now.  We then go back to the cabin and sit on the balcony for a couple of hours before going to lunch. 




Now lunch – well we have a choice – we can go to the Orangery, which is the self service restaurant, but we choose not to as it is a bit of a bun fight up there.  We usual decide between the Café Bordeaux or the Medina Restaurant, both of which are waiter service.  So we just decide which one we want to do.


After lunch we usually return to the cabin and either sit on the balcony or we do our blog.  Now to do the blog is quite a procedure and it does take quite a while as we cannot always get the photographs to download.  Sometimes it can take twenty minutes to half an hour or even longer.




Now go to Part 2 for the rest of the day.

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