Early on Wednesday evening the captain had announced that,
due to high winds we would be starting our transatlantic journey around 4 hours
later than planned.
Waking at 6:00am yesterday to find that we still hadn't
left Reykjavik was a bit of a shock.
It turns out the winds had gotten even worse throughout
the night (gusting up to 50 knots) which meant it was too dangerous to turn the
ship around and leave port.
With nothing much else to do (the shops couldn't open,
neither could the casino and even some of the morning's entertainment had to be
scrapped because the ship wasn't in international waters) we got ready, went
for a late breakfast and then I spent a very uneventful half hour in the calm & non argumentative laundromat doing some ironing. Unfortunately, not long after that, I started to
feeling a bit poorly.
It was my own fault, I'd completely forgotten to take my
cyclizine tablet and only remembered just as we got underway (which was late
morning), consequently, by the time we hit some choppy waters, the meds hadn't
had time to kick in and I ended up in bed for most of the afternoon feeling
very sorry for myself..... woe is me :)
I felt better around 4pm so we were able to think about
what we wanted to do for the evening and, as it was the 2nd formal night of the
cruise, we went to see what culinary delights awaited us.
T wasn't very delighted....he didn't like the sound of
anything but did say he'd have the "always on the menu" Country Chicken
if I'd like to go. I wasn't that
bothered and it seemed unfair to have him dress up to the nines for a bit of
roast chicken & veg so we decided to have something later on from the HC.
Back in our room, I felt a little tired (I'd not long
taken my 2nd cyclizine & that's one of the side effects) so I lay down for
a nap. T said he'd wake me at 7.
Ha!, don't trust a T as far as you can throw one is my advice........he
fell asleep too & we both ended up staying in bed for the rest of the night.
(To be fair, I think we must have needed the R & R......neither
of us stirred until 7 this morning)
So yesterday in a nutshell...........
We were well over 16 hours late leaving Reykjavik
I felt sick
T & I slept a lot
All in all, a bit of a non-day really
All in all, a bit of a non-day really
