Clock set back one hour. GPS does not pick up the correct time zone so you have to reset it to GMT time manually.
After dropping the pilot in the late evening, Queen Mary 2 enters the English Channel, where she will set a west-south-westerly course paralleling the southern English coast. Queen Mary 2 passed south of the Bill of Portland and Start Point.
As we leave the English Channel, we will be to the south of Bishop Rock, marking the traditional start of our transatlantic passage towards our destination of New York. The English Channel is considered the busiest shipping channel in the world, with more than 500 vessels transiting the channel every day.
Alas, no planetarium.
Started our return to the gym. This gym does not have lockers, locker room or shower, but you can get access to those amenities for only $59 a day. The shower in the room is just fine.
Gala dress for dinner required tonight. Gowns out cocktail dresses; suit and tie for men.
I had a long discussion with the headwaiter about what salt free dining means. He took it to heart. He explained that salt free usually is they just not adding salt I explained that was not my concept. Dinner took a long time because I had ordered a lobster tail, but I got this instead.
Truly, an outstanding dish. Then Armond came over and said he would cook for us at the table, he will make lobster osmand, his own concoction; as I’ve already pre-ordered for Tuesday he will do this Wednesday.
10 seconds of listening to the music and we decided it was not for us. Nice watching the others dance.
Exercise summary for the day: QB climbed 17 flights of stairs today and her watch registered at six.  It’s because she’s partially helium. 
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Was the dish which was not lobster tails in fact a split and stuffed lobster (salted)? Will be interesting to see how close to truly salt free they can come.
QB looking very elegant indeed in black with pearls.
No, in fact they did not give me the salted water lobster but took out the meat and then found a giant prawn set and mixed the meats with non salted butter then put into the shell and grilled. Perfect. They are learning as I am instructing 🙂
You may lead them to actually develop a menu of delicious no/low salt options. In our demographic (i.e., old) there are likely quite a few future passengers who would benefit; they could make it a marketing theme…
QB and I discussed this. We were very surprised that with this demographic there weren’t many people on low or no salt diets and they should’ve been very familiar with this approach. They were familiar with filling out a piece of paper one day in advance for each meal, but just like on the cruises it seem to mean it seem to mean no After the dish was cooked
I explained to them that sending A pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon was not a low salt dish, even if they did not salt the pork after they cooked it. Headwater understood what I was saying
We are rather surprised as airlines have learned this along time ago
If I discussed this with Bobby kins his answer would be: they are British
KB
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Stunning in pearls!
Food seems to have vastly improved.
Bob
Excellent dinner as they are now adapting to my explanations of how to manage a low salt diet. Dishes come more slowly but are now tailored for me.
The trick is to reply from the blog that I get from you on gmail (vs. identical one on Earthlink). I only figured this out by accident when I tried it and you got my message). Good luck rather than good management!
A few comments:
Sorry about the planetarium being closed. I’d forgotten they had one (but we did go!)
Sharon looks lovely in her dinner finery. You maybe a bit in shock from wearing a tie?
You talked to more people on your first day than we did on the entire trip—why am I not surprised ; )
Looks like you are now doing very well in the food department. It was hard for me to tell where you were exactly—I assume this is the Britannia dining room? But getting some table-side cooking—wow!
It looks like you are up one level (on the ship) than we were and room looks somewhat larger too. I’m not complaining—we were fine. We did enjoy breakfast room service one day anyway. For the rest, we went to the big dining room and except for one day always got a table for two. We had dinner at night with our friends.
As for flights of stairs—my Apple Watch never counts all the stairs I go up and down—in fact barely counts anyway. Wonder what one has to do? Maybe climb the Himalayas?
Have fun—water is it for the foreseeable future. We did see dolphins and some other seafarers along the way. Dee
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I am guessing that Earthlink considers these comments spam. As to the apple watch, today I climbed 31 flights and QB 9 though we were together on most of the stairways. There is a setting in the fitness area of the apple watch settings to reset for recalibration. QB will try tomorrow. Yes, we have an upgraded accommodation; quite nice.
KB.