Wednesday, June 15, 2011; at Sea
Today is an at sea day, so we both slept in late. Yesterday afternoon the North Sea was like a plate of glass, but today it is a little rougher and I have had some difficulty reacquiring my sea legs. It was fun to “go up to the Lido” for a nice breakfast, something we always wistfully remember after a frenzied day back home. At eleven o’clock we attended a cooking demonstration during which we learned how to make the lobster salad and the crème brulee dessert from the famous Le Circque Restaurant in New York City. It was a yummy interlude.
On the down side I have found it nearly impossible to access the internet here aboard the ship. We had no problems at all on the World Cruise, but apparently things have been changed and the sign-in program dumped unwanted spam into my computer, causing me to get very irritated with the ship’s internet manager (who was very non-caring), and to spend hours cleaning it up.
This evening was the first formal dining event of this cruise. Lynn and I enjoy dressing up in tux or formal gown to go to dinner. We invited two older ladies, Carol and Ann, whom we had met at today’s wine tasting event to join us at our table, and we had a very pleasant evening getting to know one another. The food was great, too.
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| Rounding the north tip of Denmark, passing from the North Sea (Skaggerak) into the Kattegat (passage into the Baltic); notice the ship traffic, all tankers. |
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| Lynn in her formal for the first formal dining evening aboard the Rotterdam. |
During dinner the Rotterdam crossed from the North Sea into the Skagerrak and turned westward around the northern tip of the peninsula of Denmark, moving into the strait of water known as the Kattegat. It was a very busy waterway, filled with (literally) dozens of tankers carrying oil to the Baltic states, which only show how our entire industrial world has become so oil-dependent.
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