We lost an hour last night due to our eastward travel, so we slept late this morning and didn’t get to breakfast until almost 9:30. We were not alone, however - the self-serve dining room was as crowded as usual. After breakfast, we went to the bridge viewing room and watch the ship pass through the Messina Strait between Italy and Sicily.
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| In Rome, while awaiting our bus, we happened to see a bride crossing the street in all her wedding finery - she is in the crosswalk in the very center of the photo |
Clouds moved in and the sea picked up this afternoon, going from moderate this morning to rough after lunch. There was a lot more sway all over the ship and we didn’t always walk directly where we were headed. Roger went to a lecture on ancient Greece and Ephesus while I blogged and spent time on the computer. Later we felt the need for some exercise, so went up to the top of the ship for country line dance lessons. They were energetic and they really warmed us up, but the dance floor is small and quite crowded.
We closed out the evening with a performer named Gary Lovin. He was an excellent violinist and quite a showman as well. The advance notices simply referred to him by name, billing the performance as "a spectacular, energetic and entertaining musical show with a difference" and did not mention his talent. During the day, I heard someone speculating that he was a comedian. After the show, he admitted that he specifically requested of the cruise director not to announce the nature of his show, but just to post his name and photo. At the end of the show, which the audience clearly enjoyed, he asked how many would have come if he had been billed as a violinist or fiddler, and much of the audience admitted that they would have stayed away. Interesting that a violinist has to disguise the nature of his art in order to get people to come see him.
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