It's Monday evening, 8:30, and we've come back to our stateroom to freshen up after dinner before heading to the evening performance and then the Chart Room to listen to live jazz ... again. Our bellies are comfortably full of Angus steak, Yorkshire pudding, root vegetables and warm chocolate fondant. We took a break from the Britannia dining room tonight and yesterday, deciding it was time to sample the dinner cuisine on deck seven. King's Court's four venues rotate breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks and it's possible to find something to nosh on throughout the day. Most evenings, however, one or more of them behaves like a restaurant, requiring a reservation. There is no additional cost for this or for the pub style lunch in The Golden Lion.
So we won't meet our new Britannia dining companions at our table of six, number 23, until the evening of the 21st. Hopefully we will enjoy their company as much as we did that of Jackie, Peg, Desiree and George during the crossing from New York to Southampton. All four of them were only going as far as Southampton.
Jackie and Peg live northwest of London. Peg, an American who moved from New Jersey to England years ago when her husband was transferred there by his company, was visiting family for the summer. Jackie flew from London to New York the day before the QM2 sailed so as to accompany Peg on her return journey. They were always a bit tardy for dinner, visiting with Peg's little dog until the kennels closed for the day. Jackie was shocked to hear that the Harry Potter books were banned in some libraries in the U.S.
Desiree and George are 30ish and decided to take 14 months off to travel around the world before they start 'having babies', as George put it. Their one caveat is they are determined to traverse the globe without getting on an airplane. Roy handed them his business card so they can send us the URL where they're logging their progress so we can follow their journey during the upcoming year.
Southampton was a nice break, although Sunday is not the best day for it as nothing opens before 11:00am. We managed to see the Maritime Museum, which had plenty on the Titanic disaster and specifically how it affected Southampton, which was home to much of its crew.
Tonight we will pass the northwestern most tip of France and then spend most of Tuesday traversing the Bay of Biscay.
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