Canaries Xmas Cruise 2021 A Coruña Page

We were alongside at about 8, while we were having breakfast. I had got us up somewhat too early, as they had also put the muster time forward. It was dark quite late, then suddenly brightened up. We were on the Town Tour, which only makes sense in that Avis is sitting in the coach for most of the time & I get to one better & one new photo point. It went to the Lighthouse & I took much better photos of it than I got in 2010 (I think) on the Casablanca Cruise.

Avis on San Pedro	Then, we were taken back to the ship in time for lunch, abbreviated as usual but there was a chatty teacher opposite me on a round table & both her husband & a retired seaman joined in. She has “views” on Ofsted, not surprisingly. I went out again to get photos of the Town Hall (which was covered in scaffolding last time we were here) & Maria Pita, who beat Francis Drake off in 1589. Then, the wind really got up & I scarpered back to Bolette.	The Town Hall
Maria Pita	Typical balconies	The Marina

Thursday 223rdd December 2021 - Day at Sea

So, up at 8 & kippers in the main restaurant. A long table for six will have no one in the middle seats for anti-social distancing. Then another couple arrived, I joked that it was to stop me breathing kippers all over them. They were remarkably small kippers, though. At 09:45, we mustered on the restaurant terrace for our mid-cruise (hardly) Covid test. We were checked in & given a Lateral Flow kit each. The idea was we all did it together & instructions were given in a Filipino accent over the tannoy, not very helpful but we acted stupid & a guy came to help us. We are both a little bit deaf now, Avis is worse, so given what he did, it was as well there was help. Then, we all shoved it up our noses together (a couple of hundred of us), dipped it in the test liquid, shook it up & dropped into a test tray. An orange colour crept along the liquid, got to the end & then disappeared. A red line appeared & lined up with a “C”. Apparently, this was ok but we had to hang around until a quarter-hour after our snot was swabbed. I saw opposite us a couple of tables away, Gina, the tall woman who looks like a man we have met on several previous Xmas cruises & got re-introduced. Then, I parked Avis in the Bookmark & went for a walk around the deck. It was fairly warm in my jacket but windy. Apparently during my walk, we passed Lisbon but did not see the shore. However, the ship was going down the outside lane. Interesting is that, no matter what peoples’ background or suspected politics, they are all down on people who won’t get vaccinated. Some say they should not be treated in hospital. I say that is inhuman but vaccines should be compulsory, like our Diphtheria jabs when we were babies. I then have a go at the so-called Libertarians. I say that is just a long word for Selfish. Lunch was the usual austere German Lentil Soup (with w&UUml;rst) & pudding. Worked on my talks & talked to people. Dinner was venison for Avis & plaice for me. Pat outed himself as someone who voted Brexit to destroy his own job on the usual daily mail stupidity that he voted for a common market but not rule by unelected Brussels bureaucrats. Fuckwit. The show was Simon Sands the funny man. He could sing but half his ‘jokes’ fell flat for being incomprehensible or old.