26th June Afternoon tea on the high sea

 


 Today was our last official day onboard, one that involved what appeared at times to be a very slow sail back to Vallatta, which is home for the Azura anyway which is based in Malta. At times the boat hardly seemed to be moving, a bit like us as the effects of the past two weeks caught up with us.

So we breakfasted in the buffet, read for a little bit, threw all our stuff back into our bags  in preperation for leaving the ship tomorrow. Hopefully having left our bags outside our cabin door tonight, we do not need to handle them again until back in Manchester.

What has become a regular afternoon snooze was put on hold today as we had our rearranged date up in the Epicurian Resteraunt for 'Afternoon tea'. Now the Epicurian is the most expensive additional dining experince on Azura but at £35 per person we both decided that irrespective of how good the food might have been neither of us felt it worth that expense. 

So we plumped for the cheaper afternoon tea option which, a bit like our experience in Sindhu, was good but not overwhelming. Don't get me wrong it was beautifully presented and served but the selection was a bit one sided with the number of sugar soaked cakes and deserts that formed the tea. 

TOM had been expecting cucumber and salmon sadwiches, plus soem savoury nibbles, instead we had a diabetics nightmare of calories, which I have to admit was a bit overwhelming. Indeed I didn't even manage to finish off the second scone I was so stuffed. So stuffed in fact neither of us could manage what would have been our last dinner.



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