Azura Day 12: Around Sicily (Sea Day)

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Tuesday 10th April 2012

Weather: Sunny but a little breezy
Sea Conditions: Flat!

Callum up at 7.30 – and a window seat at Breakfast made his day. He was convinced it was because he said Good Morning to all the Waiters’ on the way to the table!

Callum was dropped off to Kids Club so Jon and I could go to Atul Kochhar’s Cooking Demo in Playhouse. We managed to get pretty good seats, but as it turned out, the whole of the theatre could smell the aromas coming from the stage. He cooked the Lamb Rogan Josh and the Beef on Skewers then showed us how to prepare tandoori chicken.

Great rappore between Atul and Neil Oliver but sadly Praboo was very quiet today! Atul talked about the fun he has with James Martin when he appears on Saturday Kitchen – although the 4.30am start can be a little tiring. He also said how professional James’ is at keeping the show going when things go wrong.

He also plugged his book that is being launched in September – “Curries from Around the World” which sounds fab. The age of spices in your cupboards at home was also talked about and gave a few suggestions of where spices in small quantities can be purchased. Some people did admit to having spices in their cupboard from the 1970’s (and I’m sure you do too Mum!!)

Rather than stay and sit for the Gibraltar Port talk (seats aren’t the most comfortable although leg room is good!), we decided to grab a coffee in The Glass House. We were earwigging on the second wine tasting session and heard there was a problem with the Albarino White they serve. It’s inconsistent and they substituted it for a Gewurztraminer for that wine tasting session.

Rogan Josh was the special for Nashta so we had lunch there. Jon and Callum had tasting plates whilst I went for the Special, Rogan Josh. It was fabulous and even Jon (who rarely eats lamb) thought it tasted pretty good too.

Today was Pirate Day in kids club. Callum had made his hat and sword that morning and there would be a Pirate Show by the Terrace Pool in the afternoon. I headed out the back to the Terrace Pool to watch the show whilst Jon went to the Bridge Talk.

The Bridge Talk was once again really interesting. Pretty similar to last time. During the talk, there was an “Alpha – Alpha” Emergency call from the Bridge to an incident in Manhattan. Jon thought for one moment that the 3^rd Officer giving the talk was going to do a runner to the emergency. He later found out it was a medical emergency as a stretcher was seen taking somone away to the medical centre. No-one dared ask what a code “Alpha – Alpha” meant though.

Some interesting questions were asked … such as why we ended up spinning around so much before we left Korcula. It was the winds pushing the ship around so much that the anchor chain had crossed the bulbous bow so they needed to get that rectified before they could pull the anchor up.

Meanwhile, the pirate fight between Caribbean Crystal and Capt Sparrow was taking part on the decks overlooking the Terrace Pool, much to the amusement of the unsuspecting adults sunbathing around the pool. Needless to say, Caribbean Crystal won and Capt Sparrow ended up in the pool.

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A Pirate Party for the kids followed in Manhattan which all the kids enjoyed and afterwards, Jon and I had a change of scene as the weather was now nice and sunny. We went to Breakers Bar which overlooked the Aqua Pool … coke, lemonade and we carried on reading.