Not a lot to say here. The sea has gradually calmed down, although it's still quite cool. Monday was a lousy day overall as it was foggy all day - but at the same time the 'apparent wind speed' was always around 60 miles per hour - far too cold and windy to go out on deck. Tuesday was finally sunny for most of the day.
I'd suspect that the captain may have had lots of complaints about missing St. John's - on Tuesday morning it got to the point where the 'Ship's Information' channel on TV completely stopped showing maps of where we are - because to anyone looking at the map, it seemed completely clear that we could have gone into St. John's. The captain did his usual lunchtime broadcast and as part of it said that no matter how close it looks, we couldn't have gotten there until about 5pm - which is only an hour before we'd have to leave.
Sometimes when a ship misses ports on a cruise, they make a bit of a monetary gesture as an apology, but there's no mention of any such thing for us. However, I have heard some passengers talk about getting lawyers to prepare letters about getting a refund of any port taxes we've paid for the two ports we've missed. Personally I've got no idea if we paid port taxes and I'm certainly not wasting money on getting a lawyer to complain about it!!!
Anyway, as I'm typing this, it's just after 4pm on Tuesday. Paul has gone up on deck to see if he can see land - according to the map we are fairly close to Canada at this point. I'm just hanging around waiting to go up to the hairdresser to have a haircut. I didn't even bother asking how much they're going to charge, because I know it will be enormously expensive but I really don't have a choice - it's 5 weeks since it was cut so it's already becoming uncontrollable.
Well, it's now a couple of hours later and the haircut was (1) well done, and (2) no more expensive than I'd pay at home. I'm really pleased!
Anyway, not much else to say so I'm off!!
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