Friday 28th February
Another exiting day at sea 🙂 with the usual late breakfast and more on the whales and dolphins, on our way to that we stopped for a while to watch the belly dancing class hmmm. Then later we went to another talk by Diane Simpson on music in the mind and how it affects the brain. Quite good, found out for the first time about Gloomy Sunday by Billie Holiday, called the suicide song because so many people had committed suicide listening to it. Apparently the BBC had banned it until 2005. Anyway after lunch we went up on deck to watch the pancake race. Don’t ask, I have no idea. I didn’t stop long, Carol watched the whole thing – the sommeliers won. I had to go and find a pint somewhere. We arrive in Sydney tomorrow morning first thing so need to set the alarm as we don’t want to miss the arrival. We will berth between the Bridge and the Opera House so right amongst the action as it is the Mardi Gras festival with a new year firework display tomorrow night, so it should be quite a party. We are here overnight so next blog entry may be delayed a while. [Well it would have had he not emailed this entry to the wrong offspring – Paul]