Breakfast as usual for us in the main dining room, followed by the hunt for a sun bed. We were on deck 16 well before 10am but all sun beds around the pool had been taken or reserved with the P&O blue towel. We found a number of empty beds half way along the ship (near the funnel!). Bagged 2 beds and David went off in search of towels to be told he should have brought them up from our cabin. Now with about 10+ cruises behind us in 6 years, with the exception of boarding the first cruise, we have never used the lifts and try to burn calories by climbing the stairs. Not too bad on medium sized ships but on Britannia going from deck 11 to deck 6 for breakfast and then to deck 16 for a sunbed to be told you need to bring your towel from deck 11 is getting a bit much - only joking I reserved the sunbeds and made David do the return journey for the towels. By the time he got back I'd had enough sun and wanted a swim only to find I was already nicely tanned - well not tanned as such, just covered in specks of soot from the funnel. Once we had our swim we settled down onto our soot covered towels for a well earned rest. David managed to insult a lovely lady who took the spare lounger next to him. She apologised for putting her bum in his face to which he replied (jokingly) he thought it had gone dark! The lady took it in good humour and told him he was lucky it wasn't three months ago as she's lost three stone in that time.
We went for another swim to wash the soot off and saw that the pool stewards were actively monitoring the sunbed situation and tagging chairs which had been left for thirty plus minutes. We decided to stalk the steward in order to be the first ones to grab any chairs he had bagged up. In the end we befriended him and asked if any were soon to be available and he offered to come over once he had some. Within five minutes we had two great loungers by the pool for the rest of the day!
Lunch was in the Horizon Buffet, I have to say I was a bit disappointed as struggled to find anything I fancied but David was happy so maybe I was just being too fussy.
The afternoon was spent in and out of the pool, it was extremely hot on the open deck. We finished off with a drink in the Sunset Bar to grab some shade.
Tonight was a formal night and majority of passengers seemed to take part with a range of sparkly dresses both cocktail style and long gowns and men in both tuxedos and suits.
We were two less at dinner tonight as one couple had gone to the Limelight Bar/Restaurant for a meal and entertainment from Darren Day. The dining room was certainly busier in our area tonight which was nice to see.
We finished the evening by dancing in the Crystal Room.
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