Friday, January 10, 2020

January 10th - Southampton


Dry land at last and yes, I will bet on Fred!


The ship was supposed to be late arriving at about noon but it was actually closer to 1PM.  Lots of people displaced from their rooms roaming around with their luggage throughout the ship this morning.  Also, I’m sure, lots of folks, who didn’t get the word and arrived to board the QM2 this morning only to be cooling their heels in the terminal.

Our room steward, Henrick, was at the end of his contract and looking forward to going home after we arrived in Southampton.  The delayed docking means he’ll have to spend the night in England before starting the long flight home to the Philippines.

We received no information last night about what was going to happen today and whether we would be allowed to go ashore.  Luckily, the ship has set up a concierge exclusively for those going on the entire world cruise.  We visited her this morning and found out the ship wouldn’t leave Southampton until 11pm so of course we could go ashore. 

About 2PM we decided to take the mall shuttle to downtown Southampton.  It’s a pretty short ride and we actually walked back to the ship later in the day.  We got some shopping done in the John Lewis Department Store.  I would compare it to Macy’s, maybe a little nicer.  Then we went to PoundLand!  Think Dollar Store…only in pounds…It was a pretty nice store and we got a number of things we thought we should have and things maybe we didn’t need, but all and all it didn’t cost too much.

Southampton is not a very picturesque town but it does have pretty good shopping and a few casinos (new to us).  We didn’t partake but I believe the Betfred franchise might be offsite sports betting…not sure on that.

We have two days at sea and then we’re in Lisbon for the day.  We’re really looking forward to that.

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