Live From The Carnival Freedom: Crossing the Atlantic for a New Whale Tail

[jam19872016]

Have one last mango and lemonade to finish so I can fill the mobile bar with a bottle of cava.

 

[jam19872016]

Just now, exlondoner said:

Does love and marry have anything to do with pineapples?

With this crowd, probably not 😆 

[chryso]

13 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Does love and marry have anything to do with pineapples?

Is there another way?

[Host Hattie]

Nice looking theatre 

[jam19872016]

Checking in for dinner at 807 with less than 10 minutes wait. 

[jam19872016]

Andy just announced we were passing the rock.

 

Big nothing sandwich. 

 

 

[jam19872016]

Table assigned at 810.

 

Tonight's menu is a special one for the journey cruise.

 

 

 

[chryso]

Thanks for posting the menus.  Makes me feel like I am still cruising.  

Would you believe I had to make my own food last night?  I felt like a neanderthal.

[jam19872016]

Arancini 825

 

 

Cured tuna. 

 

 

 

Edited October 26, 2023 by jam19872016

[jam19872016]

Arancini had a nice spicy kick in the sauce. So did the cured tuna. I enjoyed the taste of both. 

 

And do I dare say, the presentation was pretty nice on both dishes. 

 

I thought about ordering the meatball instead of the tuna but the waiter said they weren't good tonight. Appreciate the heads up and shame on Nonna.

 

For mains I got linguine vongole and Veal marsala 844.

 

 

[exlondoner]

2 hours ago, jam19872016 said:

Got a little downtime since my mom wants to do a late dinner tonight. So let's do some catching up on port days My memory is already getting fuzzy but I will do the best I can to accurately articulate my time in port.

 

My first port of call with the QE was a stop in Toulon, France.

 

We were docked, but there was nothing in the immediate area so Cunard provided a water shuttle to take us into the city proper.

 

 

This was at 9:45, nearly two hours after arriving in port, and the line strechted almost back to the ship.

 

 

 

The lady in charge of the line was quite aggressive about keeping the line tight and didn't seem to understand when people started arguing with her that they can't keep moving forward if the people ahead were not moving forward. She just kept repeating to move forward.

 

The beautiful QE.

 

 

 

 

Thinking about this, I wonder why Cunard didn’t use their own tenders to supplement the inadequate shuttle service.

[jam19872016]

The linguine was very nice. The veal was not bad but not as tender as I would like and a tad too salty.

 

For dessert I got the lemon frozen torte 855

 

 

My mom got the apple crostata.

 

[jam19872016]

At the reg frog pub for the Freedom Rockband 

 

Went with absolute mango and lemonade because I don't think I have enough wake hours left to finish a whole bottle of bubbly

 

 

Brown eyed girl 🎶 

[jam19872016]

1 hour ago, Host Hattie said:

Nice looking theatre 

Carnival 's older ships have real nice theaters. Their newer ships they keep getting smaller and smaller. The better shows worth seeing are on the newer ships and you spend half your night stalking a seat or having a pole in your view. 

 

1 hour ago, chryso said:

Thanks for posting the menus.  Makes me feel like I am still cruising.  

Would you believe I had to make my own food last night?  I felt like a neanderthal.

That sounds terrible 😕 😳 

[jam19872016]

56 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Thinking about this, I wonder why Cunard didn’t use their own tenders to supplement the inadequate shuttle service.

It was also crew drill day, abandon ship if I recall, so the crew and tenders were otherwise engaged unfortunately. 

[jam19872016]

Really trying to do more comedy I just hate having to show up so early and sit and the bar seating is uncomfortable for me.

 

Here 15 minutes early but when I've peaked in the 1030 show seems quiet, most people on the journey cruises are sleeping by then so I'll take note and see and maybe I can start making the late show at the last minute.

 

 

Ship is getting rocky again.

[jam19872016]

1030 tons of open seats. Host says love and marriage just ending so they are going to wait five minutes a storm of people would be here.

 

She wasn't kidding, this will be SRO by the time the show starts. Guess I really do need to show up early still bummer.

 

Jill Kimmel R18+ starting now. 

 

[jam19872016]

Jill was ok. Got a few good laughs in.

 

I'm back in the room now and winding down for the night.

 

We gain an hour tonight and so for the first time in weeks, I will not be six hours ahead of eastern time. This will be the first of seven time changes. I am all for some 25 hour days!

 

Goodnight everyone.

[techteach]

9 hours ago, chryso said:

I discovered that Roku Live Tv has a channel of nothing but reruns of the Great British Bake Off.  I watched all evening yesterday.  So many "celebrity" bake offs, I haven't seen.

I was inspired to watch today also. I hadn’t completed Season 10, so I am setting that as a goal as I hand quilt a 90” X 90” quilt. (If you don’t know, that is a really, really big quilt). I saw the controversial Mexican themed show. Oh, my.

[techteach]

 

Linguine? I don’t think so. Linguine is flat, but I’m glad the flavor was to your liking. I thought the presentation of the arancini and the tuna was the best so far. It’s hard to make Veal Marsala in a situation where you’re serving a lot of people. It has to be cooked perfectly and served immediately. Look like you had a pretty good day for food. Loved all of your pictures of Toulon and sad to hear you were treated rudely.

[chryso]

38 minutes ago, techteach said:

I was inspired to watch today also. I hadn’t completed Season 10, so I am setting that as a goal as I hand quilt a 90” X 90” quilt. (If you don’t know, that is a really, really big quilt). I saw the controversial Mexican themed show. Oh, my.

I have not yet begun the new season.  Looking forward to it.

[NE John]

8 hours ago, jam19872016 said:

Arancini had a nice spicy kick in the sauce. So did the cured tuna. I enjoyed the taste of both. 

 

And do I dare say, the presentation was pretty nice on both dishes. 

 

I thought about ordering the meatball instead of the tuna but the waiter said they weren't good tonight. Appreciate the heads up and shame on Nonna.

 

For mains I got linguine vongole and Veal marsala 844.

 

 

Did the kitchen cut the linguine into pieces? Hmm..not very Italian. 

[jam19872016]

Good morning everyone. 

 

We are now just five hours ahead of EST. One hour behind CEST.

 

Today is a sea day en route to Las Palmas.

 

The only plans I have so far is the diamond lunch at noon and walk a mile with Andy but there is plenty to do, or nothing to do if you feel like it. I'm leaning towards the latter 😀

[jam19872016]

7 hours ago, techteach said:

 

Linguine? I don’t think so. Linguine is flat, but I’m glad the flavor was to your liking. I thought the presentation of the arancini and the tuna was the best so far. It’s hard to make Veal Marsala in a situation where you’re serving a lot of people. It has to be cooked perfectly and served immediately. Look like you had a pretty good day for food. Loved all of your pictures of Toulon and sad to hear you were treated rudely.

My mom noted the same. It was really just spaghetti. 

 

I'm not usually a fan of veal but this is usually pretty good. We came late so it makes sense it was a little off, I'm sure it probably sat too long before it got to me.

 

4 hours ago, NE John said:

Did the kitchen cut the linguine into pieces? Hmm..not very Italian. 

No they definitely missed the mark on authenticity 😆 

[jam19872016]

No reading from the scale, way too rocky. I've taken a motion pill.