Sea Day Feb 5

 Athens to Rome Cruise

Sea Day 

February 5, 2026

As we left Cofu last night the wind was just howling.  There tops of the waves were cut off and spray was flying horizontally. However I did manage to get one last parting photo of old town Corfu as we left.  The wind was whipping up the waves pretty good and it was a fairly rough night with lots of rolling on board the ship.  The seas have continued to be quite rough all day today.  More than a few of the passengers are under the weather.  

Being a sea day as we travel from Corfu to Malta there were no shore tours so I thought I would catch a few photos of the ship.  The Nordic design carries though the ship with lots of blues and whites.  It is a very nice palette with no garish colours.   Agnes and one of the ship's officers hammed it up in the Oceans Café which is the main buffet for a quick photo.  All of the stair cases have scenes form the Bayeux Tapestry printed on the back wall of the stair case.  Even though everyone is on board to day the ship does not seem crowded as there are lots of places to sit and lots of quiet places.  

While the food over all has been quite good, I would not say exceptional.  Service especially in the specialty restaurants has been poor and inconsistent.   Getting into the main restaurant for supper is a total gong show.  The line up starts 20 minutes before the restaurant opens and by time it opens there is a huge line of probably 45 minutes to get seated.  Service is "ok" (dammed by faint praise).  Service in the buffet for drinks, coffee, table clearing exceptional.  The staff in there really hustle.  

All of the staterooms are veranda rooms and are again in the blue and white motif.  I shower is great with a wonderful spray head.  The find of the trip goes to Agnes'  Amazon purchase of these magnetic hooks. We have lots of extra places for coats and what ever. 

Tomorrow is Malta where we have two nights. 

It was so nice to have a rest day. 

Terry