Wednesday and we are at sea, in transit from Aruba to Jamaica, we should be arriving at 08.00 on Thursday.  Weather first thing was fairly windy and plenty of white horses on the sea. During the night it apparently lashed it down with rain, but I heard none of it, just saw the puddles on the balcony. As the ship thunders its way through the sea there are no end of flying fish skimming the waters getting out of the way.  The weather looks ominous with lots of black clouds and threatening to deliver heavy rain again.  However, after more full English the clouds broke up and it turned into a very pleasant sunbathing day.

Spent the morning worshiping the sun god and then slipped down for a bit of silver service lunch.  Fish and chips today.  After lunch I attended a free seminar on taking travel pictures, whilst Maureen said hello to the sun god again.  I followed later for a couple of hours, but then it was time to start getting ready for the second formal dinner.  No cocktails or Captains speech tonight, so it was straight into dinner.  Mellon followed by Tiger prawns followed by baked pineapple marinated in rum and topped with rum & raisin ice cream.  Positively delicious, yet again.  Food and facilities on board are excellent and have not heard anyone complaining about them.

After dinner entertainment has been a classical pianist and a male singer, both of whom was very talented and put on half reasonable shows, by anyone’s standard.  The wind has died down as the day has gone on and the ship now has virtually no movement.

The clocks are going back an hour this evening, so we will be 5 hours behind GMT.  Good thing is that we will get an extra hour in bed!!