Day 8 (May 10) At sea

Today was our first day at sea as we travelled from Civitavecchia to Carteghena, Spain.  Ice as a lazy awakening at 8am.  We certainly miss the lack of an outside camera like found on the smaller HAL ships to give us a sense of perspective.  Breakfast in the LIDO was good And that led to our first presentation about the upcoming ports by the location specialist.  He presented an informative talk about cities we had previously visited (except Gibraltar).  Angela then stayed for a presentation on the Iberian peninsula history while I went to the Cruise Critic Meet and Greet where I was able to put faces with screen names for a few folks.

After lunch in the Lido, the Location Specialist gave another presentation on the Passions of Spain:  Toros (bullfighting), Food, Flamenco, and Football (soccer).  The Captain, Emiel Defries then led a presentation and toast to be cruise.  The evening entertainment on the World Stage with  its 270 degree video screen was super impressive and technologically state of the art.  Our evening was capped off by watching Bridge of Spies about the swap of Rudolph Able for Francis Gary Powers and a young college student on the large outdoor screen on the pool or Lido deck.