Saturday, January 21st, 2023 Queen Victoria, at sea
Updated: Jul 4, 2023
This is the first of three sea days before we reach our next port of call, St. Maarten in the Caribbean. The seas are quite calm compared to our transatlantic crossing, but the weather remains unsettled with a chance of rain and quite cool – in the low 40’s F. It was good to be back in the Britannia Restaurant for breakfast, we always try to make the effort to get up in time to catch the breakfast service – and since we’d been eating breakfast in the cabin for the last week it was great to be sat at a proper table and to be served by the attentive staff. I did notice a profound vibration in the ship as we were sat at the very back of the restaurant, I do hope the propeller is not ready to shear off! The ship was unexpectedly in dry dock just a week before we boarded in order to replace one of the propellers due to vibration issues – I’m not sure it was totally successful. As we are heading for a transit of the Panama Canal, after a couple of Caribbean Island stops, Cunard has arranged a series of lectures about the history and construction of the canal. This morning we attended the first lecture of the series; it was presented by Richard Wainio a retired Panamanian business executive who spent much of his career involved with the canal, including overseeing the transfer of operational ownership from the US to Panama. The lecture today was titled “Spanish Conquistadors, Inca Gold and the Path Between the Seas” – it covered the very early history of the region right up to the first attempt to build a canal – it was very good. English Premiere League football broadcast live right into the cabin – great! The Queen Victoria has a British-styled pub similar to the Queen Mary 2, today we tried it for lunch today and found both the service and food quality to be better than the Queen Mary 2
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