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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