Thursday, 8 June 2017
At Sea — Irish Sea … En Route to Belfast
Stats @ Ship’s Time 9:15p (BST) … UTC 8:15p (8 June)
Temp:56.8F (14.8C)
Position: 52.58.32N / 5.37.60W
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G. K. Chesterton ~
Rockin’ and rollin’ across to Northern Ireland. Up and down … left to right … repeat over and over. That’s what most of the day was like. Thankfully, the seas moderated in the late afternoon and the sun peeked through the clouds … we even had some blue skies. Nice.
I was awake at 6:00a. It was bright behind the curtains … we gained an extra hour overnight. Mui had woken up and pulled the heavy drapes aside around 5:00a. Normally I like to leave the drapes open, but as far north as we are, it’s been getting dark later and later. So we’ve been drawing the drapes closed at bedtime.
We went to the Terrace Café at 7:00a for breakfast with friends. It was quite chilly then … and through lunch as well … 54F (12C) I think Captain B said when he came on at noon to tell us that we were cleaving through the Celtic Sea. By the time we returned to the cabin after lunch, the sky was more sunny than cloudy. There was enough of the sun’s rays to keep me warm on the veranda as I finished reading the Daniel Silva novel I started earlier this week — The Black Widow. An interesting story — probably all the more so because it relates to current terror events associated with ISIS … thus the plot has a ring of authenticity about it. The book gets a thumbs up from me.
Dinner tonight was our usual group of six, but for a change of pace we went to the Grand Dining Room. Food was good; conversation was good; service was a little slow, but it wasn’t like we had anywhere to be so we didn’t mind ;-)
We have a 12-hour day in port tomorrow. I canceled our pre-arranged tour as the weather forecast isn’t looking too promising to go play on the Giant’s Causeway. The decision to explore Belfast instead was made easier knowing that we will return to Ireland for a land-based vacation in a couple of years … 2019 if all goes as planned. We’ll squeeze in some sightseeing in Northern Ireland then as well.
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