By the time we got back to our starting point, it was pouring it down. We decided to have a quick look at the harbour to see if we could do a boat tour. Unfortunately the only tour operating that day, would have got back too late. We decided that Corsica is one of the places that deserves a closer look and headed back to the ship. On the way we took some more photos of the Magic.
There was a little chaos at the gangway. People were still getting off the ship, but a large number of people wanted to get back on. There was also a large group of what I assumed were local tourism officials and travel agents waiting to get on for a tour of the ship. Still, about 10 minutes later, we were back on the ship.
As we were absolutely drenched by the time we got back to the cabin, we got changed. DH decided to head for the pool. I took my iPhone to work on the questions for the Scavenger Hunt for our Transatlantic Cruise. I had great fun doing this. I literally covered every inch of the public areas of the ship looking for potential questions. It is amazing how many things I noticed that I had never spotted before. I think I came up with a good range of questions with some of them being very easy and others being fiendishly difficult.
Once I had completed my grand tour of the ship, I went to see how DH was doing. I noticed that the hot tubs were completely empty so I decided to make good use of this. It looks like a lot of people had that idea. By the time I had gone to our cabin and got changed, both hot tubs were full. So I decided to join DH in the pool. The water temperature was pleasant, but it was quite windy. As soon as one of the hot tubs started to empty out a little, I got in and DH joined me shortly afterwards.
Once we had enough of this, we got dried off and dressed. After we had dropped our stuff in the cabin, we decided to get some lunch. Parrot Cay was closed so we headed to Lumieres as Topsiders would have been manic with so many people back on the ship already. We had to wait a little while to get seated and ended up sharing a table with a lady from the USA who had come over on the Eastbound Transatlantic and after our cruise, she was planning to travel around Europe until the first Baltic cruise. She is doing this cruise as well before returning home. Let's just say I was a little jealous.
I was not too impressed with the lunch menu this day. It was very heavily seafood based. I ended up ordering the Spaghetti Bolognese from the kid's menu without the sides as a starter followed by a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich on sour dough bread, which was very nice.
After lunch, we decided to go back to the cabin to have a nap. Once we were awake again, DH headed to the gym and I wandered around the ship to take some more photos of Corsica and to put the finishing touches to my questions for the Scavenger Hunt.
We had arranged to meet up outside the Cove Cafe just before the all on board time as we wanted to watch us sailing away from Corsica from there. I got there a little early to stake out some of the comfortable seats. I had just settled down, when the captain made an announcement that one of the excursion buses had been involved in an accident and was not servicable. Everybody was fine, but they needed to get a new bus to the passengers to get them back to the ship. The new estimated departure time was an hour later. I went to find DH to give him the update.
We decided to wait for the revised departure time in the Cove Cafe. When I did the Tequila and Margarita Tasting on the first sea day, this was hosted by Fernando, who works at Cove Cafe. He recommended that if anybody likes a good Margarita, they should come there. When we got there, he was on duty. He mixed us Margaritas that were very good indeed. I still think that the Margaritas at Salt Island Chop House and Fish Market are slightly better, but those came a close second.
While we were sitting there, two of our table mates arrived. So we ended up chatting with them for a bit. Shortly before 18:00, the captain made another announcement that the replacement bus that had been sent to collect the people that had been involved in the access still had not located them and that the new estimated departure time was now 19:00. At this point we decided to head for the Rainforest Room.
There were very few people in the Rainforest Room. I started out just relaxing on a heated tile lounger. We had moved to the mild sauna when the ship got underway.
All too soon it was time to get ready for dinner. I decided to wear my favourite dress that night. This had always been a tight fit, but was now very loose. I was not too concerned about this at first, but I soon realized that it was threatening to fall down whenever I moved. In the end, we used my lanyard to tie together the straps at the back, which solved this problem.
On the way to dinner, I spotted Mickey wearing his French outfit so I had a photo with him.
Dinner that night was the Flavours of the Mediterannean Menu, which turned out to be my favourite. We had the Antipasti Platter with Parma ham, Parmesan cheese and olives for starter followed by a Spicy Andalusian Tomato Soup. We then both had the Osso Bucco on Saffron Risotto and also shared the Tuscan Flank Steak, which came with pearl onions and a potatoe cake. I cannot remember what I had for dessert that night, so it was obviously not very memorable.
After dinner, we headed to bed. We found this towel creature. We are still not entirely sure what this was supposed to be, but thought that this might have been a swan.
