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Today's bread pudding!#

Day 6 Thursday 28th September Today's Menus Blue Gala and Day 10 menus served on Day 6! lido_lunch_day_10.pdf lido_dinner_day_10.pdf mdr_gala_menu_blue_-_day_10_morimoto.pdf

I have not tried the Morimoto fish dishes, but there are numerous fish dishes each meal time. Tonight there was fresh Baltic Swordfish (very nice) as well as salmon, herring etc. Sometimes looking at the food I think that a true carnivore may think that they are being ignored. 😉

Rotterdam Deck 11, outside the roof of the megadome. Nada!

Day 6 Thursday 28th September. Riga, Latvia Today's Daily Program

Ok please send me $25 (+18% grat) and I will check for you and return any funds that I am not charged 😀

More rock than mix. There does seem to be much more dancing in BBKings

No. The grand piano sits forlornly in the corner. Unused and unloved.

Also i have seen speedtest.net results for starlink and the results always mention starlink. As i have posted currently Rottrrdam is showing Equinix as the provider on speedtest.net

That is what i was thinking but i will still have a look for the flat head antenna.

Ok i will go up and have a look and see if those strange looking receptors are anywhere. It may be a day or two as, at the moment the fog horn is blaring and it is difficult to see anything.

He has to toe the corporate line. Perhaps be was only reporting information that had been given to him.

Day 5 Wednesday 27th September Today's menus. lido lunch day 5.pdf lido_dinner_day_5.pdf mdr_dinner_day_5.pdf

Your comment on portion size is interesting. We continue to have problems with the staff serving us portions that are larger than we require. They do not seem to understand the words "small" or "just a little". It embarrasses and annoys us to leave so much food on plates that need not be there. However, we have heard complaints that are the polar opposites of us. Indeed we overheard a guy at one table complaining about the plates being too small!

Thanks for your review. We are still wary of cruising on the smaller ships. We love the Pinnacle class even if we do not use all the facilities. It is nice to have them available. Even on Vista/Signature class the reduction of facilities is noticeable, also the general ambience and brightness of the ship. We only sailed a smaller ship once and that was Rotterdam vi to North Cape which was amazing, but in hindsight, they still had BBKing up in the Crow's Nest at night. That was a real club experience.

Lots of movies to watch in the comfort of your stateroom if you are so inclined.

Today at sea it is warm on the starboard side of the ship as the sun shines on us, but over on the port side it is significantly cooler. The difference in temperature was really noticeable when doing a couple of laps of the Promenade Deck pre lunch. Now with the ship's time at 16.20hrs (4.20pm) the fog horn is sounding and a mist has descended over us. Yesterday was an unexpected 22°C (google it!) and tomorrow is forecast to be an unseasonal 25°C (google it again!). The weather is great, however we brought clothing in expectation of the usual weather pattern, so I have a lot of long sleeve shirts, long sleeve vests, jumpers, sweaters, fleeces etc. What we need are T shirts, short sleeve polo shirts and similar. Luckily we found a Tommy Hiflinger store open yesterday in Warnemunde and were able to purchase a few items in the 70% off sale. The forecast for the weekend is back towards 14/15°C (you know what to do!) which is more seasonal.

Day 5 Wednesday 27th September Daily Program

I am sure that some sites are blocked even on premium. Here is what HAL says about their plans...

Currently on Rotterdam and this is what I am getting on the Premium Plan in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Starlink is not listed as the provider, but Equinix. Earlier in the week I was hitting 84 mbps Download. However I cannot stream on Netflix, but I can watch Youtube videos and stream my local TV station for news heads etc, but some content is blocked due to rights restrictions.

There is a specific board for France and you should post there.

As I mentioned above we only require evening service and yesterday evening after our stop in Warnemunde we spoke at length with our senior steward. He is in his mid 40's and has 3 children (21.16.14) he has been with HAL for over 20 years. Anyway, he also told us that they were given permission to finish the morning shift early yesterday. His contract ends in January and he is looking forward to going home and wanted to do some gift shopping for his kids. He said that most of the stewards would be finished by 12 noon, but he was finished at 11.30 thanks to us. I know he was joking with us, but sometimes it makes you feel a little good to make someone else a little happy.

🤣and a small slice of wortspiel! 🤣

Also "lemonade" or ice tea served at meal times. Jugs of which can usually be found during the day in the Lido at the servers stations.

Tonight I received my complimentary bottle of vino. Our lovely bar attendant Khrystal had shown me that they had recently introduced a new wine to the ship and it was covered by HIA. A rioja no less. She gave me a sample and it was quite pleasant to drink, soft and fruity. So I took a bottle as the apology.