Well, this time we not only made it to the country of departure, we made it onto the boat/ship/vessel, whatever the correct name is. Last nights hotel didn’t provide breakfast, so our only option was MacDonalds.
We were picked up by Uber and driven to the QE2 terminal where the Sun Princess was waiting for us. Boarding wasn’t too painful, a little bit of a line up to get through security and then it time to board.
We had an hour to waste before our cabin was ready so grabbed a quick drink, then went up to the buffet for a snack. We followed that with a trip to our muster station, which was a requirement. Following that, we headed down to the cabin. Although there had been no announcement, the cabin was ready, just no baggage. We then realized we had a couple of bottles of wine in the cases which we should have transferred to our carry on, plus a hair dryer for use later on in the trip. I suspect our bags are in a “sin bin” somewhere.
We’re still docked in Southampton where we have contrasting views from the balcony
Then we saw a tug appear, closely followed by a container ship, closely followed by a tug all tied together! I guess the container ship had a propulsion problem as there was no propellor wake behind it
We’re on the move, and both our bags have arrived without going to the “sin bin”.We left Southampton, turned left into the English channel heading towards the North Sea. Trying to get a meal tonight was pretty futile. We had a pre-dinner drink and went to a restaurant around 7:30. Normally around this time it’s easy to get a table, unfortunately we forgot to factor in that there a re large number of Brits on board who tend to eat later. The line up were quite long. Hopefully this was a first night issue, otherwise we may have to change our eating habits. We finished up in the buffet, the food was fine, the ambience not so! After food we settled down in one of the bars with a guitarist and listened to songs and music while enjoying a few drinks.