News Update from Poland

First days of Baltic Cruise on Fred Olsen ship Black Watch 23/24 /25August

Bank Holiday Saturday is not a good day to set off for the coast to catch a cruise liner as Sue and found out at the bottom end of the M3, anyway we eventually boarded and were somewhat surprised to see the ship was full of people mostly older than we were! Does this bode well for lectures on popular culture? We shall see. John’s first lecture on Radio 1 is scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Hope they are not all asleep!
Lecture 1 on Radio 1 went reasonably well with around 50 people in attendance. Would have liked more but maybe some of the oldies thought the subject too young for them and we were competing with the art class and the attractions of an after lunch siesta. They all seemed to enjoy the “Bits & Pieces” competition with a bottle of champagne for the winners and we have broken the “duck” We now have eight day until our next lecture.
We continue our cruise northwards through the Keil Canal to Poland and the port of Gdansk where we have both offered our services as Tour Escorts, this gives us a free tour but we hope nopassengers are taken ill or incontinent.
We’ve arrived in Poland at 7am, weather looks pretty good so we are off to do pur duty and hopefully post this blog... more later.
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