Food

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Saturday 11th February:

As it's Saturday I thought I'd give an insight into that common weekend treat: the

cooked breakfast. You won't be surprised to know that on board ship, you have the

opportunity to eat just about every breakfast food imaginable: cereal, fruit, porridge,

pastries, fried, boiled, poached, grilled, Japanese things that I have no knowledge of

plus anything you can think of to spread, pour or drown your plate with. But even so,

some people have managed to surprise us with the combinations they have created. One

person chose scrambled egg with fried eggs and cottage cheese. Not a natural

combination and definitely not a combi I would choose. Somewhat stranger was the guest

who chose sausages, eggs, bacon ... and haddock. I can't really imagine fish with the

other 3 choices. But the weirdest, by a very, very long way, was a traditional English

breakfast: bacon, eggs, sausage, tomato, hash browns and corned beef hash plus two

pieces of steamed haddock covered with an extremely generous helping of baked beans!

They certainly haven't motivated me to experiment with that particular combination.

The rest of our day has gone in the normal way for a sea day: wake and watch Sky News

over a brew, then the gym, then a very normal breakfast followed by a lecture. Today's

was about the end of the air ship era and having moored my first ever boat within sight

of the airship hangers at Cardington near Bedford, I found it very interesting. Lunch

was then followed by several wonderful swims - the waves were crashing around in the

pool again today - and a long leasurely lie on a sun lounger reading our books.

Dinner and a show at the theatre will complete our day. We have an exciting day

tomorrow as we cross the equator. I'm still not sure we've done the right thing to sign

up for the full blown Crossing the Line ceremony but I'll let you know more about that

tomorrow night!

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