We awoke in the early hours to find the bathroom wet and mopped the large puddle up with a towel, realising the water was coming through the ceiling in a steady drip we put another towel down so we wouldn’t slip and promptly went back to sleep!!!! John made me a lovely cup of our own coffee in the room after a couple of false starts when the socket he’d used yesterday had stopped working….but not to be deterred he walked the kettle around the room until he found a socket which did work….what heaven at last a decent cuppa coffee!!! I’d forgotten about it whilst we’d been having our early morning get-ups.
We made it down stairs for breakfast by 8.30 am to find that although there were few people about most the sun-loungers facing the sea with a parasol had already been ‘baggied” by none viewable people who had obviously then gone back to bed..grrrr…..this is a real pet hate of mine and really cheeses me off particularly when we are cruising…it’s so selfish, especially as some people don’t pitch up to take up residency until late morning by which time we would have gone for some cool-off time in our room….any way RANT over particularly as we then hypocritically put our towels on the last two remaining front row loungers and sat at a table nearby for breakfast….this was much the same as yesterday only this morning one of us got pineapple and one of us got passion fruit…..we also managed to get the pancake served without sugar sprinkles all over it…and of course it was all swilled down by the normal undrinkable coffee!

Breakfast finished and having told the manager about the water coming through our bathroom ceiling we took up our positions on the sun beds. A kind Austrian man helped us move a rather heavy parasol to give us some shade and eventually I asked the waiter to move another so we both had shade. The sea wasn’t quite as rough as it had been and some brave souls went for a swim, however we only got as far as thinking about it when some rollers came in and knocked people flying. So we took our hot bodies to the pool to cool of.

After a few repeats of sun and pool we retired to our room to enjoy the view from air conditioned surroundings. Thankfully the leak had been stopped and the bathroom no longer had an identity crisis thinking it was the swimming pool!!!

Having rested, away from the intense heat, we went down to have lunch under the fans. We both had the same as yesterday …John a cheese and a tomato sandwich and I had seafood Ton Yum again. We then had another hour or so of sun and pool and generally enjoying the beautiful surroundings.

The heat of the afternoon sun soon got the better of us and we retired for a siesta prior to getting ready to go for supper. We sat at our usual table under the fan for our evening meal. I think you would call him the floor manager, brought us menus. He is a very hardworking man…there at 7.00am and stays until the last person goes to bed…he seats people, hands the menus out, takes orders, organises the other young staff, collects the sun lounger cushions in etc, etc. in fact I don’t think there is anything he doesn’t do….he has a dry sense of humour which we both like. Soon after he had handed the menus to us the chef appeared and greeted us like his favourite customers. He once again told us what fresh fish he had and ended off with jumbo tiger prawns ….well that was us sold….we did ask how much he said £10 for 10 but because it was me he would give us 12…..well that was the budget blown but you only live once so we went for it and we’re very glad we did….

The floor manager came back and said he could see from our empty plates we hadn’t enjoyed the meal and why hadn’t we finished the soup (that was the finger bowl). He then asked if we wanted the same as last night for desert…well! It would have been rude to say no….so we rounded the evening off with John having his fruit salad and ice cream and me having banana fritters and coconut honey….what a scrummy meal. We thanked both the chef and the Floor Manager for yet another lovely meal and retired to our room …sleepy and contented.