Postcard from Angola

Well, only 570 miles off, but that’s the nearest land! Nicely off the bottom in 5500m of water, stemming the Benguela current with only a few hundred miles to run to Walvis Bay to arrive early Sunday; looking forward to our desert tour. Now on South Africa time, 2 hours ahead of the UK.

Filling the days with concerts, films, knitting and the last of the Stieg Larsson trilogy between pounding the deck and the pools. Cloudy but warm – passed a large pod of dolphins and lots of flying fish!

Interesting to note that our salvage expert expects Costa to recover the Concordia, but wonders why she hasn’t been stabilised by lines ashore.

Also interesting that in order to be able to do weddings at sea Carnival re-registered QM2 in Hamilton, thus losing her International callsign of GBQM to be replaced by ZCEF6, which just doesn’t have same ring about it!

Windy on deck, 21 knots shipspeed against a Force 4 Southerly, so deck 12 another desert, but great for sunbathing! Can't believe we have come all this way with hardly a swell.

Champagne tea with Beatrix?

Pride of America on the bottom

ZCEF6 instead of GBQM,

Desert on board