Muster was 5pm, muster station the theatre. The only other time I hadn't been outside was Jewel. Already I could hear Brits moaning. Afterwards it was back to the cabin briefly and I met my cabin stewardess, Clairon Alisop, a very cheerful and bubbly lady from Trinidad and Tobago. Cabin TV had Aussie stuff, including their version of Sky News which not only got most of its reports from Sky UK and ABC US, it is so biased it makes the BBC look impartial! They also had Fox Sports and Fox Sports News, which was the same as Sky. No BBC World News which made a change and the only American was CNN. It was getting a bit cool as we waited for our 6.30pm sailaway. There were 310 Americans staying on from the previous cruise - jammy sods! We left about eleven minutes early, which suited me! Only one blast though, disappointingly. After turning we sailed out of the harbour, wind whipping up once we reached the Moles. I stayed out until we dropped the pilot then went in for the welcome aboard show featuring Aussie magician, Ben Murphy who seemed familiar. Dinner afterwards on table 412 where I was put with four British couples over fifty-five, mainly retired, and an eight year old boy. Carol and Dave were from Yorkshire, Ann and Howard were from London, Joyce and Pete from Kent and Sue, Pete and their grandson Charlie from Cheshire. Ann used to be a teacher and immediately began bossing people around. Right from the start they were trying to outdo each other. I couldn't wait to get away and went shopping. They had no postcards and these dreadful T-shirts with Radiance of the Seas in huge white letters on the back, which looked like it was ironed on. Then returned to the cabin, watched some telly then went to bed.
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