Beamafar

There was a discussion on the Az forum at the time we had a booking for Journey last year about the available tonic onboard.

TBH, I’m not overly impressed with it, either, but, thankfully, it’s not Royal Club. 😱 I’ll find out for you.

Well, I’ve finally joined your club. 😁😁

Yay. Fever-Tree 🥳 🎉👍😁

Thank you. About time, so. 😁 I don’t know how many ‘Live from…’s I’ve done on here.

Can anyone tell me how you become a ‘Rare’ one on here? I see it’s been added to my avatar (yeah - I’m anticipating the responses to that! 🤣).

OMG, these small bottles of water are nigh on impossible to open. Mr B uses his thumbnail to break the little connectors to free the cap. I remember this issue being discussed when we were on WE back in April but I can’t recall if they were the same ones, though I think they weren’t as bad as these guys.

Well, I’m sitting on the balcony in the sun right now, P, and it’s very pleasantly warm. Easily 26 degrees with a warm breeze blowing. I will check outside tonight if I get a chance. I’m not used to dining at 9pm so I don’t have my usual onboard routine.

Balls: if you’re looking for some, they are available between 9.30am-12pm and 3-6pm on the pooldeck. I’m referring to the ones you need for basketball, ping pong, table soccer, etc. You cannot have them (or hold onto them) outside of these times.

There’s a feel that autumn is setting in here. We’ve had a breeze for a couple of days, now, and temperatures are low 20s until around midday. It was 27 degrees in Ephesus yesterday but I was told that it got quite cool on the pool deck in the afternoon in Kusadasi. I believe it’s chilly in the evening/night so I would advise anyone sailing this region soon to bring a light sweater/jacket.

So, for lunch, Mr B had the stuffed eggs and sardine salad, which he thought was good. We both had our very favourite lunch offering: fish and chips. Piping hot and the fish was really fresh.

We’ve had some rain showers in Rhodes today. Seems like the most recent one was very heavy (we were having lunch, so didn’t notice). As a result, the pool deck is flooded and is far too wet to traverse.

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Today’s lunch menu

I’ve managed to book a private transfer to the airport at a cost of €65.97 with hoppa.com. That includes the 25% discount that I received through the email when I had requested that they email me with the quote. So, that’s the thing to do if you’re considering Hoppa for airport transfers. The original online quote only had a 15% discount applied (automatically). MSC does offer transfers, but our flight was too early to avail of the service.

I’m with you on that one, Cap’n. Last night’s choices for us were lamb (for me) and blackened salmon (for himself). Our 2 table mates also chose the salmon and all 3 said it was really good. My lamb was better than usual.

IMG_8087.mov A taster clip from the ‘Blinding Lights’ show (as promised)

Tonight’s dinner menu, as per the app (🙄) We will probably dine in the MDR tonight.

I didn’t think it was the opera event. So the Italians may yet get 2 nights dedicated to them in the theatre. 🤷‍♀️ It’s amazing that they think they’ve only uncovered 15% of Ephesus. We prebooked an MSC excursion and had a very entertaining guide who was extremely knowledgeable, interesting and funny. We also visited a carpet weaving place, but we stayed on the bus as we weren’t interested.

Thank you - much appreciated.

I’ve scanned the QR code for today’s menus which is posted outside the MDRs. I see that I missed out on the Cuban sandwich. 😆

OK - so I requested that the online quote be sent to me by email and received the following:

Our table mates have told us that they used Hoppa.com to book return transfer from the airport to port to airport and that they paid €67 total. I’ve just checked for a one way from port to airport and the fare is €79.

We did an excursion to Ephesus today (thanks Ken @CruiseIrelandfor sharing your experience, which convinced me, not just to book it, but to give Mary’s House a miss). We got back too late to have lunch in the MDR (and I can’t access lunch menus on the app 🙄), so I won’t be able to post the menu. Instead, we had lunch in the buffet. There was a terrific selection available. I had trouble deciding what to have (and that’s saying something 🙄). Mr B tried out several pizza offerings (he only liked one) and I had lamb curry 😋followed by one of my favourite lunch items: fish goujons. Pork was the roast of the day.

Tonight is White Night. This is what the app is showing for the theatre tonight. Does this look like it might be the opera?