THE CRUISE - Bergen to Oslo...at sea

Day Twelve - Wednesday, 29th June

Today is another at sea day, and also another Black Tie night, so we are not sure where we will dine tonight. Can't go to the formal dining at 6.30, and other areas are also "restricted". The meal arrangements and the dress codes are too rigid in the areas they are applied to, and if you don't conform, then that only leaves you places like the Buffet, which can be limited in choice, depending on the theme for the night, or the Trattoria, but that has become very popular.

As we've said before, the cruise companies (at least P & O), are trying to replicate or recapture the eras in the early 20th C , when cruising was in its heyday, at least for the rich, and everyone dressed for dinner.

We saw quite a few couples who should not have bothered, and some seemed to be trying too hard, and fit in to evening clothes they perhaps wore a few years ago, (when they were slimmer!)

The other problem with the early dinner session, is that you have to go to the restaurant when you really want to be outside somewhere watching the scenery as you leave. 

Then again, the 8.30 sitting means that you don't get to finish eating until 10.00pm, and that's not good for anyone, (unless of course you are going to be up for hours). The thing that bugged me (G), is that we are excluded from the places they designate as "adhering to the ambience of the evening", (e.g. Formal clothes), yet those people who do dress up are allowed to wander around wherever they like.
Why would you get all togged up and still go to the buffet????

Thankfully the ship's doctor said Gordon could still have a drink, (wasn't he nice), and so having watched as much as we could sailing away from Bergen, we decided to try the food in the Glass House.
It was very pleasant and I had nice meal of steak with green pepper sauce, and Lee had Lamb and Rosemary sausage. 

Not much else to do except catch up with some email and this blog, and have an early night.
Tomorrow we get to Oslo.