WE ARE ON THE REGENT SEVEN SEAS VOYAGER AND ON OUR WAY TO ROME

 Let me begin our final day in Barcelona with lunch again in the same Eurostars Hotel, for our steak experience the day before was fabulous.  We ordered their sea bass special for two.

The whole fish ended up being two filets.

Plusa cooked vegges plate.

Lunch with beer and Dewars White Label.

There was then a long wait before we could leave for our ship.  But finally, at 4:45PM we left.  Final photo of Eurostars Hotel.

Almost an hour later we reached the Barcelona Port where we could see the Regent Seven Seas Voyager, which is 21 years old with a capacity of 706 passengers and a crew of 447.  In the past, Forbes reported this was the most expensive cruise in the Asian region.

Then the usual wait to check in.

But we got through within half an hour.

Regent Seven Seas has six ships, the newest the Seven Seas Grandeur in 2023.  It is owned by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, which also runs Oceania Cruises.

Our suitcases were in our room.  We went to the Observation Deck for scotch.  I taste tested a Macallan against a Glenmorangie.  There were chips and peanuts.

Then dinner in the Compass Rose.  Interesting that our Tauck Esprit dining room was had the same name.,

Above, a Raymond Cabernet Sauvignon, and below, a salad and truffle risotto.

Dinner was Shanghai Noodles.

A Roquefort Cheese and Port wine finish,

Walked 4514 steps.

We were scheduled to depart at midnight.  The captain warned that we would be sailing through a storm, and waves would exceed 10 feet.

• You would think that the Mediterranean is a small sea and like a lake.  Nope.  Turns our it is where cruise passengers tend to suffer the roughest seas.
• It is about 335 miles from Barcelona to Rome.  San Diego to San Francisco and Lihue to Hilo are also a little more than 300 miles apart.  
• Voyager has a top speed of around 22 MPH, so that would be almost 16 hours of cruise time at that speed.  However, the captain they would be moving at 18 MPH, so the journey would take more than 20 hours.

The night was as scary as I've ever been on a cruise ship,  Woke up at one point to go to the bathroom, but the ship was tossing badly, room creaked, thunder, lightning and I just didn't feel safe about getting out of bed.  It was like sleeping on a sloshing waterbed.  Finally, I had to go, and somehow made it there and back.  On awakening, the ship was still in high winds and waves, and this continued until 9:30 that night.  So getting to a restaurant was a challenge, then serving yourself at the buffet was nearly impossible.  Somehow, though, we made it.  That image is from the movie The Perfect Storm.

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