Beautiful seas and skies, but so hot, best viewed from inside! We haven’t felt inclined to be outside much today, apart
from our essential walking after breakfast and dinner. No swimming or hot-tubbing today, in fact
there was even a decadent little afternoon nap in the cabin today.
Our quest to keep cool had also involved in-cabin telly, rewatching
the captain’s slide show “life on the Bridge”, very informative and once again
reminding us of how much there is to learn, and to stay mindful of what’s
happening here and now, and not to take the work of the ship’s officers and
crew for granted, plus a documentary
called “20 Feet from Stardom”, an insight into the work of Black American background
singers over the last 50 years, all about Gospel roots, women’s issues, racial
equality and much more.
Otherwise normal activities in air conditioned spaces like
dance (today it was Samba) and art (a mountainous landscape) were comfortably
achieved. The landscape is quite
complicated so we are going to take two sessions to finish.
Meal times are still just as interesting. I always start a new
conversation as soon as someone says “Is anyone sitting here?” There are a few retired nurses doing the whole
circumnavigation. One of our table mates, Bea, is a nurse, and Bea incidentally
only lives in Whitefield, then a lady we met at breakfast a few days ago who
spent her nursing career at Pendlebury children’s hospital working with
children with leukaemia, and today a former Barts nurse and midwife who later
became a nurse manager in Southampton, who coincidentally knows someone from
the Department of Health I remember doing a DANS when I was studying for my
B.Nurs at Manchester in the early 1970’s. Some lovely unexpected yet vital nursey
conversations.
Tomorrow we arrive in Suva in Fiji, we don’t have a tour
booked this time, but Khachik has all the instructions he needs to find a
haircut and we know that we won’t need a bus or taxi to get to the town centre,
just a short walk from the port. We dearly hope that alongside visiting
Paradise Island we can have some live chats with our loved ones tomorrow.
Clocks go back one hour tonight so it might be possible.
Let’s see. Bye for now, time to get the black frock on for a
formal dinner. xx
No comments:
Post a Comment