Split

Saturday 29 October . . . . Split

Up in the gym by 7.30 for stretch and abs at 8.00. Took a healthy appetite in to breakfast. Nice English couple wanted to hear ALL about grandchildren. She was elegant and refined and he had 3 top teeth. He spotted dolphins cavorting next to the ship.

Ashore by tender. Had a couple of hours wandering the old walled city of Split. Morning markets selling prime produce at really cheap prices. Banana grapes etc $1.50. Internet and fridge magnet *tick*. Back on board 2pm for a nap ahead of a very full programme until midnight. Quiz 4.15, 8.30, 11.45. Cocktails 5.15 dinner 6.00 9.45 some other game, 10.30 theatre production “Celtic Heartbeat”. In between the Grand Black and White Ball.

We partook of the champers and then some very smooth red at the cocktail party. Off to dinner and the waiter fetched the 2 of us wine glasses and then said excuse me, which I expected meant he had just realised that we hadn’t ordered any. No , it was a gift for us from the maître d’. Hmmm weird. Then I guessed it was related to our having mentioned our unhappy experience on night 1 when we didn’t get into dinner and found the person whom we took to be the maître d’ to be unhelpful. It was MORE champagne – Heidsieck no less! Just might have been a very posh drop. The real maître d’ introduced himself afterwards and said he had just come aboard and wanted to build goodwill or whatever. So we waddled off to the cruise feeling very well lubricated.  

It  was a very full evening and we were lucky enough to gain an hour extra sleep for some strange reason, since we are only advancing some 100 miles down the coast and w2ill still be in Croatia tomorrow (Dubrovnic). We had very enjoyable time with Harvey the American at the midnight music quiz having thought we did very well in the afternoon only to get gazumped by some poseurs who scored 20/20. The 8.30 quiz I managed to steer the 6 participants into one group for the quiz so that we all won!! So another 2 tickets. Met an interesting Kiwi . . he could easily be an overlooked sons