Our very final sea day is quiet – in fact so quiet one might question if even 100 customers are onboard, let alone the 300 who actually are somewhere abouts.
We’re not complaining – the walking deck is quiet, the al-fresco breakfast is just us and two other regular couples, the pool is empty, as is the bar.
We have our most lazy day, flitting between sun lounger, lunch and jacuzzi, chatting with our hardy regulars whenever they show up.
We descend to MDR for dinner to enjoy the band set up here, a new idea, which is just wonderful – big band classics so people can dance between courses, how fabulous! We’re sat on a table next to last night’s dining companions so we continue our conversations.
Our dinner gets complicated because Marco sends us firstly a huge dressed crab, complete with prawns, salmon and caviar. Within minutes an enormous plate of green-lipped muscles arrive too.
We cancel our soup course to accommodate all this extra food, and persuade Di and Cliff to take a small portion too!
Our mains of two kinds of lamb are fabulous but one photo is a disaster!
We end the evening with Bernard Walz again, such a fabulous pianist, tonight playing Joplin, Bernstein and Gershwin. His straight playing is incredible and so precise, but his improv gets a bit challenging – only because he is so talented.
