Italy > Greece > Paris - Day 19
Monday May 04 At sea
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All quiet at sea. The sun is shining on calm seas, the breeze is light and the temperature is about 22 Celsius. We enjoyed a coffee and watched a school of dolphins trying to keep up with the ship. Later we had the Mariners’ Society lunch and the Captain cracked a couple of suitable jokes. I am now back in the cabin writing this blog on the deck. Oh, what a hard life we have! Tonight it’s a ‘formal’ dinner (oh no – a tie!!) and Thea is hoping for lobster on the menu. If there’s none, it could mean a mutiny. And we’re aiming to finish dinner before 8 and be out on deck for the passage through the Strait of Messina at around sunset. All is well – there was plenty of lobster along with a small steak and by 7.30 we were indeed out on deck watching the setting sun bathe the Italian mainland to starboard, and Mt. Etna and the coast of Sicily on the port side. The sunset was not spectacular (none of them have been) but the slow passage through the strait in the warm evening air was a real pleasure. |
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