Thursday 23rd January

We are now in the Caribbean Sea ‘proper’ and setting a south easterly course for the Island of Aruba by midnight we shall be more than halfway across the Caribbean Sea with about 350 nautical miles left to run to the port of Oranjestad in Aruba. We are experiencing the effect of the Trades Wind belt which takes the heat out of the sun, very dangerous if you are sitting in it. Bill Bryson is Cunard’s celebrity speaker on this leg of the cruise so we went along to listen even though we had not heard of him before. He is, we understand, a bestselling author. Well it was OK, he read some amusing bits from his books, but he admitted his publishers said that he had to push his new book and if his books are not your bag then as I said he was OK, but he did have a lot of fans there. We then watched a presentation on the Panama Canal, its history, construction, and operation, which I thought was much more interesting.

Dinner was formal night again, but before dinner we had another Captains Welcome Reception for the new arrivals, cocktails in the Queens Room. I guess we will have had quite a few of these come the end of the cruise. After dinner we had a bit of a mooch round before going up as we have a 6:30 rise in the morning.

Oh and welcome to the blog Georgina the same goes for you as goes for Suzanne 🙂 (see yesterday’s post).