Day 61

Day 61 – Reykjavik to Halifax – Sunday 15/7/12

Weather – Fine and Cloudy 11C - 14C

Sunrise – 4.29am

Sunset – 11.09pm

Time difference - minus 11 hours ex Sydney

Throughout the day Sun Princess steered a south westerly course through the North Atlantic. At about 9.30am this morning we were in a position that is exactly on the opposite side of the Earth to Sydney – this is called “the antipode”. It is 280 miles southeast of Nunap Isua on the southern tip of Greenland, and 600 miles southwest of Iceland.

Day 2 of 4 sea days across the North Atlantic, and another cool, but fine day. Our luck with the weather continues to hold, we have only had to deal with rain on 2 of the 61 days so far, Paris and London days, and even then they were passing showers.

Not much to share today, we had another relaxing sea day. Crawling the walls a little as it is still too cold and windy to be on deck, really looking forward to the warmer weather as we head south. It must be incredibly cold up these parts in winter, if this is what summer is like.

Lesson 2 in Cha Cha today, we did pretty good. Just need to practice it now. We have done these dance classes before on cruises, but they are usually conducted by entertainment staff, the ones on this sector are being conducted by proper dance instructors, and it does make a real difference. Today we revisit the waltz, I really want to learn that properly, as opposed to my usual shuffle:)

After dinner show tonight was excellent, it was a guy by the name of Donny Ray Evins, who does a Nat King Cole tribute show. Then onto the Wheelhouse Bar for some dancing, we saw that to the end, so it was onto the Shooting Stars nightclub. We did not last long there as it was only canned music, the DJ had gone for the night.

Lorri – thanks for the sea scanner link. They now have a static display on the tv, which plots the noon mark on a map, not as good as the live thing, but it is something.