Day 10 - Baltic Sea

Day 10 – 9^th September 2014 – At Sea

Today there is a south west breeze with small waves and an overcast sky.

This morning in the gym is enjoyable, but where are all of the others, it is very quiet and the sauna is only warm, maybe too many days in port is taking its toll.  Although, there is a grand Russian bazaar going on in the Queen’s Room, maybe they are all there collecting their souvenirs.

It is back into the choir practice in Hemispheres which was quite nice; though some appear to be taking this too seriously, to me it has always been a bit of fun.

Lunch in the Princess Grill with Colin and Debbie who are on our table for dinner was very enjoyable.  While later we met Graham and Valerie from the Scottish Borders, who invited us into their stateroom. which is a part of the Queen’s Grill, two rooms along on our deck.  The Queen’s stateroom is absolutely amazing.

Lounge

  

Entrance

You enter through double doors into a very well appointed lounge.

Dining Table

  

Balcony

Pass through a dining room with an enormous table which leads onto a balcony. which is four normal cabins long. 

Bedroom

 

The  separate bedroom is enormous and luxurious.

There is a walk in wardrobe, with an adjoining separate changing room.

Corner Bath

   

Power Shower

The bathroom is something to behold with a corner bath at one end and a power shower cubicle at the other, joined by a wash room. 

This magnificent set of rooms is something to aim for on anybody’s cruise with the added bonus of having a butler, so I will keep buying those lottery tickets.

A formal night, a Captain’s reception at 18.30 in the Commodore Club and I struck up conversations with Ronnie the Chief Engineer, Sally the Entertainment Director but enchanted with Henrietta, one of the Deck Cadets, it transpired I knew her sister Holly, who was one of the Engineers’ on Queen Elizabeth, it’s a small world. 

These receptions are over all too quickly, but we had been invited to Graham and Valerie’s stateroom for pre-dinner champers, so happily went there and soaked up the wonderful atmosphere of luxury.

A superb dinner of salad, steak diane, followed by ice cream sets you up for the theatre.

Here entertained by the dancers in an extravaganza called Dance Passion, with all sorts of dance routines which were all wonderful to watch.

This day at sea had been marvellous, with all sorts of different surprises, happily went off to bed with expectations of tomorrow and another day in port.