Feeling tired, Pam rose at 10am and went to the buffet for cereal for breakfast. Mark stayed in bed until 11am and skipped breakfast completely. Pam wandered into the Carinthia Lounge and met Raju and his wife Nina and joined them for the morning trivia quiz. It did not go well with a score of 10 out of 20.
Mark had a early lunch of burger and chips and wrote and read until he met Pam who had attended the 12.15pm lecture by Diane Janes, her very last one. This one was all about how fictional stories can influence the mind of killers and how real life crime can inspire writers with their storylines. Examples of this were Agatha Christie being inspired by a real life kidnapping when she wrote Murder on the Orient Express. Meanwhile, her book (ABC murders) influenced a killer who based his murders on the same theme though his victims were children not adults. Nowadays, it is not just books but video games that are being an influence to killers too. She is a very good lecturer and would happily go and see her again.
Pam had a buffet lunch of roast lamb and vegetables from the buffet before another, not so common event occurred. We overtook the Queen Victoria Cunard ship around 1:20 to a blaring of horns and whistles from both ships. They are completing a round the world cruise and we were close enough to see their passengers waving things like scarves and room towels from balconies and their decks. Pam witnessed the event from the promenade deck whilst Mark started in the library and finished off the event from our cabin balcony.
Continuing the theme of “last….”, we joined our quiz partners Andrew and Diane for the final music quiz. It was very hard and we only managed 27 out of 40.
We managed to catch the RSC, in illuminations, performing Shakespeare Tales. They performed extracts from various plays and sonnets. It definitely makes a change from the offerings on other cruises.
Then we had our final afternoon tea onboard - in the Queens room, with the harpist naturally. We sat on a table next to Janet, Ann and their friend Julie. We had far too many cakes but it was hard to say no.
We went, with Janet, to the Carinthia Lounge and played Ticket to Ride, in a corner, whilst the Ocean Drive duo played on in the background.
Our last task before dinner was to go to the library, to hand back Pam’s book, and to take photos for our ship area blog section. These are the photos we took - the Atlantic room on deck 11 forward (used for this cruise as the world cruisers concierge room) and the outside area which is the Observation Deck at the front of ship.
We had a late dinner as we didn’t want to try to get in for Alfie Boe’s 8pm show - we were planning for the 10:15 show. Dinner was in the main Britannia restaurant - we had haggis and mushroom croquettes followed by steak (Pam) and oven baked salmon (Mark). Mark had strawberry trifle for dessert and Pam ended on Rhubarb and orange pavlova. After dinner you get petit fours and Mark has been asking for gold wrapped chocolate mints and smuggling loads back to the room. We have quite a collection of chocolates.
After dinner we headed back to the room to start packing and at 9.30 we headed to the theatre to queue up for the show. Doors opened at 9:45 for the 10:15 show and there was already a queue. However, we got good central seats about 3 rows back. What a workhorse Alfie Boe (and the band) were. He did a 90min show for us and he had already done the same set at 8pm. He sang a mixture of Italian songs, songs from musicals and pop songs and it was clear he was enjoying himself as much as we all were. He was also very funny between songs. We had such a fabulous night. What a great way to end the cruise.
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