This sea is unbelievable! There is just no sense of voyaging at all it is so calm. It’s like being in an excellen hotel and you don’t realise you are at sea until you look through the windows. Sunshine all day today but we did miss an hours sleep last night as the clocks went forward an hour. Suuske has been active again!!! But she has decided not to continue with the choir. Don’t think it’s what she is used to!
Theatre show tonight was excellent. Brilliant band and singers and dancers! For those of you interested its 3 rhythm piano electric bass and drums (One of the best drummers I have heard!) and front line is Sax (Doubling) Trumpet and Trombone. We get to Gibraltar tomorrow. First port of call and we can be on land again.
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Sunday 15th of January
Our first ports of call today; these were Gibraltar and across the straits to Ceuta in Morocco. We had an organised trip In Gibraltar and it took us all around the rock and as high as the roads would take us. Most spectacular is St Michael’s cave which is a grotto of magnificent stalactites and stalagmites. These are lit up in pastel shades making the whole cave bathed in a comforting glow of soft lighting. There is also a very large theatre in the cave and while we were there the piped music was from Lohengrin. Wagner opera would be really impressive and memorable in here. Back to ship for lunch and the short journey across to Ceuta. Ceuta was closed, even the cathedral and the churches and this being Sunday it was bound to be asked “are there no congregations”?! Never mind it was a lovely sunny day and we had a nice time there anyway it being a lovely town.
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