Monday 23rd Izmir
(Turkey)
C on his private deck by 6am as we
cruised in. We did an hour in the gym which was almost totally empty and then
lined up for the good stretch class but there was a glitch in the program and
he wouldn’t do it (although he would have run yoga if he had 5 paying guests!).
We went ashore and settled into a
lengthy blog photo session until lunch. Alas the Eagles lost badly at the
weekend – they don’t seem to be able to beat the other top teams – good luck
with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the next 2 weeks. Also very sad to see the
open warfare raging in Syria in the cities we visited – Aleppo and Damascus.
We have signed up for the $30m on
Thursday so if you don’t hear from us ever again nobody would notice anyway.
Pasteur discovered a cure for rabies, which is why the bloody French all knew
it yesterday.
Today we are tied up next to Costa
Atlantica. It seems to be our sister
ship. Same size, shape and water slide.
After lunch we walked along the
water front to the main town square area. It was hot but there was a strong sea breeze
that saved us. Wandered around some of
the older streets/bazaars. Located the
Konak clock and pier. Then wandered our
way back to the ship.
Konak clock tower. Has never stopped working since it was built.
Mini Mosque
Where we won yet another quiz – we
were always going to be challengers at Geography but we knew everything
including the question where the answer was wrong – Sudan is no longer the
biggest country in Africa (Algeria). Flushed with success, we advanced to the
Costa Club desk and got our memberships confirmed and activated, including
credit for our earlier trip. This will get us (hopefully) a fruit basket and
another cocktail party.
We were feeling like we didn’t want
to go down for dinner – takes too long and we eat too much. But we discovered
there is no buffet in the evening! That’s wild – we have never seen that
before. Some boats have 24 hour buffets and several have multiple places where
you can eat in the evening (as well as the ones where you have to pay a token
amount). Costa has free pizza 7x24 but you wouldn’t want to eat it for dinner.
After dinner the waiters paraded
around the room and then between the tables and then 2 of them got up on a
table and did the Sexy Dance. Right next to us. It probably wouldn’t have taken
too much to get J up with them thanks to all her new skills learned on the last
MSC cruise. We first saw this one on the Costa cruise in the Pacific.
Race is on and we are winning ...
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