The cabin

Just a couple of photos of our cabin. It has turned out to be exactly the one that we thought. Very spacious - but a little bit tight for clothes storage space. Probably because we have brought far too many clothes with us - but we are away from home for a long time. We had a MAJOR panic this morning, an absolute disaster was looming! We had to give our Passports to the Purser's Office (I guess for them to check Visas, etc). We went to get them from Christine's purse, which is the last place we could recall them being after we boarded - and they weren't there!! We tore the cabin apart and could not find them anywhere - this would mean the end of the cruise for us. We took everything out every suitcase, every wardrobe, set of drawers and the safe (having put
all our cash, credit cards, etc in there when we first arrived). They were nowhere to be found! The safe was (or appeared to be) empty -- BUT - if you put your hand into it and feel around, you can feel that it is wider inside than the width of the door and, although it appeared to be empty, it was not!! The Passports were hiding in the corner, out of sight!!! One of the problems was that the safe is almost at floor level and you basically have to get down on hands and knees to access it - the biggest problem however was that we allowed ourselves to get a little "hassled" during the boarding process on the day before and we had
stopped thinking!!

We had our first Formal night last night - so we have gotten to use the formal wear that we had to acquire for this voyage. It wasn't as big a deal as we had imagined it to be. Most dressed up - although there wasn't as many men in Tuxedos as some cruising Forums had led us to believe would be the case. - and plenty of those who were in Tux's had coloured bowties (something of an anathema to some traditionalists). Perhaps this was because of the number of Aussies onboard - about 800 of us. There are still approx 1000 British onboard doing the complete World Cruise - also about 50 New Zealanders.

You can view a Youtube video of our first two days on P&O Oriana here