Day 23 At Sea bound for Brisbane
Another sea day. Jeanette was off working the lecture circuit and I was enjoying a read in the peace of our stateroom.
We did, however, catch up for lunch and a couple of lectures by our favourite art gallery presenter. I loved the example he gave of three people who each paid £125,000 for the right to tape a banana to their wall with duct tape.
After one of these we went exploring around the ship and found there was one bank of elevators that went up to Deck 14. In our wanderings we had previously never got higher than Deck 12. So we hopped the lift for Deck 14.
First thing we found when stepping outside was the Sky Bar. This was a small semi circular bar surround by a single, also semi circular, row of tables and chairs, then a verandah rail looking down onto the pool deck. It looked great but there was absolutely no shade from the sun that was beating down.
Walking around towards the stern we came across a paddle tennis court, then at the stern of the ship, an outdoor smokers lounge, and around on the other side a practise putting green.
This night in the theatre, they did Noel Coward’s play “Brief Encounter”. It was really well done.
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