Year 3 Day 340- “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 4/06/2024. Day 5 of 28-day European Vacation – day 3 of 18-night Northern Europe MSC Euribia cruise. Today we are at sea. We left Southampton last night and we will travel 435 nautical miles and arrive at Hamburg, Germany 7am tomorrow morning. We will be traveling in the English Channel Traffic Separation schemes until the Dover Strait. The Dover Strait is located at the narrowest part of the English Channel. It is the strait that separates the English Channel and the North Sea and is the busiest shipping route in the world.
I love sea days; most people sleep later, and the Marketplace Buffet is quiet and peaceful for early morning breakfast. It is also a nice day to spend some time relaxing and enjoying the fresh sea air. Such peace!! It is always cool to look at all the large ships traveling. It just amazes me how all these different worlds exist while we are in our own little, tiny space.
A sea day also gives me the perfect opportunity to explore the ship and do a little casino video tour.
At 10am this morning we passed Rampion Offshore Wind Farm which is now generating enough green electricity to power the equivalent of around 350,000 UK homes. This is equal to almost half of the homes in Sussex. This wind farm has 116 turbines on a 70 square kilometer site located between 13 and 20 kilometers off the Sussex coast in the English Channel. By 11:30am the sun is shining brightly on our balcony. Around 1:30 pm we passed the Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind farms which are under construction. This company is building two sites off the coast of England which when completed will power about three million homes.
In the afternoon the Marketplace buffet has a Pastry Extravaganza. The cases are filled with some extraordinary desserts.
Here’s today’s Daily Planner
Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese –Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/3UxSLkn Not the healthiest but is easy to prepare and yummy with a good healthy salad and or a vegetable. Works wells in our new world where we will be cooking mostly on the barbecue at a construction site. A good one pot filling pasta.
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To view the complete daily diary, click here – This starts at Year 1 Day 1: Living the Dream – Deestimes – Make every step of the journey count