Time change again last night, woke up early to clear skies and the sun beginning to rise on the horizon, yayy! Vibe club opens at 8am so I was there on the dot choosing our beds and enjoying the early morning warm breeze.Met Alex at the garden cafe for breakfast, health kick this morning, fruit for him, cereal for me.Spent the morning lazing in the sun with the ocean drifting by, my idea of heaven. The usual suspects from last year were also up there and the atmosphere was good with the bar staff singing and cracking jokes. Enjoyed a couple of virgin pina coladas (don't do daytime drinking) and read some magazines.Miss German 'titty' from the sauna yesterday appeared, blagged some bloke into moving her sunbed for her then proceeded to get the puppies out ... read more

Still cloudy! Went for breafast and then decided to ask for refunds on our Vibe passes as we had heard quite a few people had done this due to the weather. Guest services lady very obliging, in fact later that day we received a note to say all vibe passengers had been refunded but were still welcome to use the facility should the weather improve. Took the vibe refund money and some of Alex's casino winnings and booked day passes for the spa for the rest of the cruise, a really luxurious facility with amazing views from the comfy recliners, saunas, steam rooms, pool, hot tubs and a snow room! Now on a couple of ocassions people have mistaken Alex for someone else, during this cruise. I am beginning to think he is leading some kind ... read more

Starting to get a bit fooded out so had a light breakfast of cereal, while Alex went for his usual eggs benedict. Worked off breakfast with half hour shooting noops on the basketball court, I beat Alex 5-4 so was pleased about that! Wandered down to the future cruise desk to see what offers were on for next year (getting to be a habit!) With exercise on the agenda today we booked ourselves into the NCL fight klub class, a boxercise class this afternoon. Jake, the trainer put us through our paces and we followed up the class with a second class, this time a stretch class to hopefully avert any aching muscles tomorrow. We had an early show booked, El Gaucho, so were ready early to get to the theatre. The show was an amusing ... read more

As we headed out past the bay of Biscay, the seas became quite rough and there was a lot of movement on the ship. Our cabin is quite close to the front so we could feel every wave and swell. At times a little unnerving as we could hear all sorts of unusual noises from the ship, last year's transatlantic crossing was as smooth as crossing a lake so this was quite a new experience. Laying down in bed I felt fine but when I started to move around the cabin to get ready a wave of seasickness hit me. Severe turbulence on an aircraft doesn't bother me in the slightest in fact I actually enjoy it but passenger seat or back seat of car or coach and I am not the best traveller, people who ... read more

Quite a few things on the agenda today so headed to the mall first thing, grabbed breakfast in M&S before heading off to Chichester to visit with Alex's 90-odd year old Grandad in his nursing home. Ron was delighted to see Alex and we wheeled him into a sunny spot in the garden and let them have a good catch up, it was an emotional moment as time goes by so quickly and we don't get over to the UK to visit so often, so it was a nice hour spent. After saying our goodbyes we headed back to Southampton and after some last minute purchases, grabbed some food to go and drove across to the dock and said hello to the beautiful Norwegian Escape, sat on the pier opposite and stared in awe of the ... read more