Southampton, England, UK - July 29

octopus appetizer

Partly cloudy, some showers and 20 degrees

Today is a travel day; we leave Winchester, and move on to Southampton to board the boat for the next 12 days. The journey is about 20 minutes by cab. Boarding is very simple, and it is only about an hour and a half after we leave Winchester that we are sipping our celebratory glass of champagne – not too bad for a travel day.


As expected our room isn’t ready until about 2:30, but that gives us time to eat lunch and take a cat-nap next to the pool.  The weather is mostly delightful – there was a brief shower in the morning before we left which shortened my last terrace session at the hotel.
 

lamb

After unpacking and the safety drill it is time for dinner. Tonight’s meal is Italian - at one of the 4 restaurants on board that require a reservation. I have an octopus appetizer which is very good – very thinly sliced octopus with a bit of olive oil. The one thing that stood out to me about the octopus was the size of each piece. Each piece must have been sliced from a tentacle 4 or 5 inches in diameter, seems pretty big to me.

Tomorrow is a sea day, so we visit the casino after dinner. I won $1.75 on video poker!!