Today was a day at sea. We ate breakfast in the Avon restaurant, then went down to the Neptune Lounge to listen to the historian talk about Lisbon and the Age of Discovery. Quite interesting, though not particularly coherent.
We learnt a bit about Prince Henry the Navigator, and how he founded a school in the late 1400s incorporating sailers, cartographers and scientists, and how Portugal then dominated the sailing world for over a hundred years. He mentioned several sites in Lisbon built as a result of the huge wealth in Portugal at this period, and I'm looking forward to our tour of the city tomorrow.
After the talk mum and I went our separate ways, and as I was feeling very tired, and had eaten too much breakfast, I spent the next few hours with a book in the Lido lounge.
We met up again for table tennis, where everyone seemed to be playing extremely well and there were some great matches.
Dinner was good, then mum and I played Scrabble until 10, when we went up to the observation lounge for the evening quiz. Didn't do well at the quiz, then I departed for bed leaving mum with her whiskey and the late evening pianist.
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