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8166. The starboard corner FV on Deck 8. I took several photos as we entered the cabin for the first time. I will post them at a later time and I will tag you.

We left Cartagena under sunny skies. I had a chance to talk to our balcony neighbors ( @biggerboat47) for a few minutes before my wife and I headed off to dinner. We are now making our way to the Azores (Ponta Delgada) which involves two sea days and two favorable clock changes.

About half an hour ago a medical emergency was called out over the PA system (star code) while we were finishing dinner. The location for the call was port side Deck 5. Hope everything is ok. Meanwhile on the starboard side, we were treated to this:

Wayne, I meant where you were seated. So, Cellar Masters. Thanks for clarifying. See you they're tomorrow at 5pm. You are not required to wear your trademark Yorkshire rose shirt for identification.

I like that feature, too! It's from Speedtest by Ookla

Perfect. So I can get indigestion after dinner watching the game at 7pm ship time.

Waiting patiently to go ashore

Cartagena port information in the Celebrity Today newsletter:

We are pulling into Cartagena, Spain now.

@Tee & Chilli, For comparison, here are the onboard connection speeds I measured on our last two cruises. The Jan 2020 readings were from Solstice while we were sailing on the Tasman Sea toward Sydney. The Jan 2019 readings were from Reflection while she was sailing in the Caribbean. The reading at the very top of the table in the screenshot was taken at an airport lounge.

@Tee & Chilli, The internet connection is "very slow" and, according to the Celebrity newsletter, is about to get slower during the mid Atlantic Ocean stage of our cruise. Having said that, the internet is currently functional which is the good news although my needs are not large. I can attach photos to my Cruise Critic posts and include photos with emails/texts to my family. Most importantly, we are able to see photos of our dog, Daisy, sent by our dog sitter. I also can place voice calls through FaceTime. I haven't tried video calls nor video streaming yet. We have the Premium Wi-Fi package from the start of this cruise so I cannot comment about Standard Wi-Fi performance. I ran a speed test just a while ago for you to see the performance data.

I have not located the hardcopy menu in our stateroom. I had presumed that it was a Covid casualty and was removed like I have found with many hotel rooms that I have stayed in.

Yes, you are right. The room service page on the app does indeed show the phone number. Thank you.

A few random thoughts: 1. Angeline, our stateroom attendant, did not have our room made up for us after we returned from dinner tonight and last night. She apologized and said that she didn't realize that we had early seating until now. So we should be good. 2. Last night was Evening Chic. Knowing that there is a recurring question on this CruiseCritic board about how many people actually dress up, I counted the number of males wearing suits that I could see from our table in the MSE. The answer was 18 out of 60 (including me who was in a suit). So 30%. One data point. Early Seating. 3. I've been reading about how long room service can take. We've called room service twice. Once for a late lunch after we got back from our flat tire shore excursion at Toulon (45 min turnaround time). Another time was tonight when we ordered dessert (49 min turnaround time). There is no way to order room service using our stateroom television. None of the short cut buttons on our stateroom telephone go to room service. You have to know to dial "52". After dialing there was no hold time before a live person answered. 4. NFL football games were shown on our stateroom television. The big problem for me was that my Steelers (@ Dolphins) had a Sunday night game. Normally a good thing because it guarantees I can watch them at home, playing on Sunday evening was not a good thing on this cruise because it meant that the game started at 1:30 am since we're in Europe and so I couldn't watch it. It didn't matter because they lost anyway. It's going to be a long season.

Thank you. Our CD is Tim Bolton who I have yet to see because we've been hermits on board so far.

A couple photos from the pier as we got back on Constellation today. Seeing the fresh food supplies being loaded at Palma made me wonder how well the food holds up during our six straight days at sea.

During the end of our tour of the city of Palma, our guide introduced us to an impressive olive tree that was 750 years old.

I will!

A group puzzle game at the library: Some wear on the blue chairs @pcrum

We took a full day small group tour that @Bob29321 arranged independently with a local company. There were 21 of us and we were on a comfortable large bus that could have handled twice the number of people. We had a bus driver and an English speaking guide. We spent half of the day at the quaint village of Valldemossa (where we had lunch). The second half of the day was spent at the resort city of Palma. We were picked up and dripped off at the cruise terminal. No flat tire today, so it was a successful trip.

I am on Constellation right now. The main dining room has tables for two. In fact my wife and I are seated at one. We have been on holiday cruises with Celebrity and they're usually isn't a special menu in the main dining room. They will make New Year's Eve an Evening Chic night so a better menu is used. One of the specialty restaurant will have a special multi course meal (with a special price, too) for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

Lunch!