The Adventures of Podge & Tubbs

Another day, another day at sea so, what do we do with another day at sea. Nothing, absolutely nuffink. 

It is however the day before our Wedding Anniversary so we would need to pace ourselves as we would be doing a lot of celebrating. 

Phew, hatch is closed. As intimated on my previous post for Day 9, The Duchess is convinced that it’s down to her raising the issue with Ajit (Hotel Manager)😀. Personally I think it would have been closed anyway but at least she can’t use the open hatch for ice cube throwing target practice 🧊. 

As it’s a sea day, we again opted for a fine dining experience in the Epicurean Restaurant (where have our breakfast every day as it happens) and, fine dining it was. What we had for dinner is mentioned in other posts and I’m not going to repeat such things over and over again, but as ever, it was just perfect 👌. 

From there we went to the Crows nest for a drink or three. The head Barman got the measure of Her Tubbsness and her love of cocktails so made her something, we know not what, and ‘told’ her try it. She didn’t dare disobey and quite naturally it went down very well, closely followed by a couple more. In the meantime, His Podgeness was sampling rather large Cotswold Whiskies 🥃. All very yummy: All of them. 

By now, The Duchess/Her Tubbsness/Mrs Me (call her what you will) had started to twitter like a good’n so it was clear it was time that we retired to our suite and once again failed to goto bed the same day we got up: And this was the day we were supposed to pace ourselves 🤔. 

Step count – 7541 🥴

So, what does one do on a Cruise Ship on a sea day? Well, one can take part in so many arranged activities taking place all around the ship from Deck 5 all the way up to Deck 16. As for us however, we just chillaxed taking in the suns rays and drinking lots and lots of water (to start with). Eventually, The Duchess needed to stretch her legs so off we went to the shops. 

Wandering round the onboard shops (again) as only The Duchess can, with His Podgeness in tow, one of the passengers came up to me and asked, ‘are you Podge, Podge ThePuffer?’ ‘Yes’, I replied. He shook my hand and said glad to meet you and turned to his wife and said ‘look, it’s Podge ThePuffer who’s been writing hints and tips for other cruisers’. That’s twice now that I’ve been recognised. Hmm, might need to lay low for a bit 🥴

Newsflash: – The Duchess bought nothing 😀

At 12:00 we attended the Senior Officers lunch put on for loyal passengers where an excellent lunch was served with free flowing fizzy pop and wine. Yummy Yummy Time.  Both Podge and Tubbs needed a bit of a lie down afterwards though.

Five o’clock brought fivesies so, rested, off we went to the Sunset Bar for Pink Gin Spritz and Mai Tai x2 before returning to dress for our formal evening in the Epicurean for some more Yummy Yummy Time but just a couple of glasses of wine as we were starting to lag a little. We then proceeded to the Glass House for a bed time Cosmopolitan and MaiTai then, finally, bed time. Again, we failed to goto bed the same day we got up. 

Step count – 5058 🥴

Day 3 is a sea day: a rest day: a day to relax on the balcony and watch the sea go by; A Day to See the Sea. Also a day to spot dolphins, with success: Obviously no photos are available 😉

So, what can one do on a Cruise Ship on a See the Sea Day? Well, one can take part in so many arranged activities taking place all around the ship from Deck 5 all the way up to Deck 16. As for us however, we just chillaxed taking in the suns rays and drinking lots and lots of water (to start with). Eventually, The Duchess needed to stretch her legs so off we went to the shops. After this, Podge invariably needs to stretch his legs as well so a couple of laps are suggested followed by a rest at the Sunset Bar for a Pink Gin Spritz and a Mai Tai or two. Nothing else, honest!

The sea day for us consists of breakfast and dinner, we don’t normally do lunch, with Dinner often being a formal occasion where we dress up in posh frocks (Tubbs) and Tuxedos (Podge), and a dashing looking couple we make: Trust me, you’ll have to cos I’m posting no pictures :-). 

It’s also a day to try Ito increase our step count. The last two days have been sub 7000: Our target is 10000. We felt that best way for use to achieve our goal was to do as many laps as possible. Now I hear you asking, what on earth is he talking about? What on earth are Laps? Well, Laps are typically circuits around the ship, normally the Prom Deck or a designated walking/running route often around the top of the ship. In the case of the Britannia, 7-laps of the designated route equalled 1-mile. Yeah right, like we’re going to manage that, certainly not all in one go anyway.

And that pretty much sums up Day 3. 

Step Count: – 7177 🥴