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| that's a big boy! |
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| breakfast |
Steps – 3,859
Humidity – who knows%
I usually love a sea day and today was
pleasant, but I never thought I’d say Regent was lively! The trouble with a sea
day like today is the weather – even if we did have a balcony, we wouldn’t have
used it today. We read, and blogged, and napped, which is exactly what we’d do
on a sea day in good weather, but it just doesn’t feel the same doing it inside.
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| spying! |
We’ve experienced sea days like this in the past, so we knew
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| Edi is taking good care of us! |
it’d be dull, but we’ve never had a poor-weather sea day on Windstar. They organized a few activities throughout the day, but beyond trivia and a line dance class…there was little to do.
I learned to use Google Reverse Image Search to
figure out what yacht we were bobbing around with…it is the Savannah, an 83m
superyacht.
Dinner was what the ship calls “Windstar’s Signature Galley Market: Step into the heart of the kitchen for a vibrant, market-style dining adventure with live music” Dinner was buffet style set up in the ship’s galley (interesting!) I think had
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| welcoming chef |
the weather been good it would have been a deck BBQ, but the weather was…not.
We tried to guess when the best time to go would be, we tend to eat late, but even then, things can be busy. It was a kind of a zoo. We don’t tend to eat
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| galley set up |
with others – we’ll chat at the bar or on a tour of course, but dinner is a bit of a commitment, plus the fact that we eat late and we eat by ourselves – not tonight. We sat with 2 couples who as soon as we sat down warned us that actually getting food would be a challenge.
Not ideal, but we had a glass of wine and felt
like we had only just eaten lunch! We chatted for a while and then hit the
buffet. By this time, things were completely civilized.
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| olives, olives, olives! |
The galley was set up as serving stations – some serve yourself, some the staff served. It was super interesting to have access to a ship area we normally wouldn’t. In the end it was fine – had I come much earlier and didn’t know about the alternative format to dinner I’d have been a bit peeved, but we were completely fine about it.
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| Chris filling his plate |
We knew dinner would be a different format because we read. Windstar doesn’t distribute paper copies of each day’s itinerary like Regent does. In fact, Regent is a late adopter to technology – no app, no onboard website where all of the info can be found like
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| Guernsey sun set |
Windstar has. Everything you want to know about the day’s events, excursions, your account, food/menus throughout the day etc. is on a website only accessible onboard. This is where we learned dinner would be different – people we talked to were surprised they arrived for dinner. This is all on your TV if you don’t want to use your phone. We won’t even talk about Princess – we were spoiled by the tech they use.
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| Guide to British English |
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