Duds could use his phone to get internet, for £5 a day, so he got it for a couple of the days..... but he did well without it. I thought he'd be throwing himself off the ship in despair  

The lack of internet connection was a bit of a blow.... but probably a good thing really.  

Awww There was a girl like that when we were on hol iday once .....sat on beach all day ....went pink  ( not burnt) ....was white again the next morning .....and on, and on, .and went home as white as she when she arrived 

It's so unfair bless 'em. It takes me a while to tan, but I usually get there in the end.... well sort of.  It's all relative.   

I'd have been the same .....makes you wonder how we ever managed  

I know. I was ok without it....... but the second I got off the plane I was frantically switching my phone on and getting my fix  

PMSL What was your cabin like ? 

Much bigger than I expected! And we had a nice big window with an unrestricted view of the sea. 

Don't worry, there will be photos, lots of photos once I get the energy to sort them out. 

The last two days, they put these things made of towels in the cabin. The first one made me scream when I walked in and saw it.  It had a scary face and was hanging in the window. I was a bit weirded out  

But the second one looked like a duck I liked the second one  

They should warn you! I nearly had a heart attack!  

Did you have Xmas dinner ?

No. They did the whole formal dinner thing on Christmas Day, but we decided to give it a miss and head for the buffet.  

The food was a bit of an issue tbh. Only cos Duds is so fussy though.  We had to eat at weird times to get the things he could eat. We were having our tea at 11:30pm....cos that's when the burgers and chips appeared.  We had a proper routine going by mid week.  

Things got a bit trickier towards the end of the week though.....cos they had a few people fall ill (norovirus season and all that), so they started a strict routine of serving you the food in the buffet restaurant. You weren't allowed to do anything for yourself. Duds was distraught Because he is so restricted in what he eats, he wants lots of one thing, rather than bits of everything, but he was too embarrassed to ask for it. We came up with a variety of inventive ways to get around the problem, but it wasn't easy  

Did you have a good Christmas Ros?  

fine thanks ducks -would love to have sunbathed now- it sounds so relaxing - must admit the bug thing would freak me a bit

can understand completely duds food fussiness ducks

BeIng shut up on a ship with that bug would freak me out !! Poor Duds ....you mean he's more fussy than you !!!

It freaked us out a bit at first. They were spraying hand sanitiser at us every time we blinked! 

And in Morocco, they sprayed the souls of our shoes when we got back on the ship.... nowhere else though. They must have particularly dirty pavements in Morocco.  

And YES! He is far far worse than me! Shockingly bad. 

Duds was in his element. He found the whole process completely fascinating  

The only thing that freaked me out was the thought of being ill and being stuck in my cabin instead of out and about exploring. I would have been SO gutted after waiting for it for so long.  

Good grief .....that would REALLY freak me !!!  

I'd have been the opposite ....I'd have locked myself IN the cabin !! 

Duds was in his element. He found the whole process completely fascinating  

The only thing that freaked me out was the thought of being ill and being stuck in my cabin instead of out and about exploring. I would have been SO gutted after waiting for it for so long.  

It's not QUITE as bad as it sounds..... you are supposed to use the hand sanitiser whenever you enter a food area, or get back on the ship anyway, but usually they're just on the wall and you use it as you pass. This time they covered them up and had a poor bloke stood there with a bottle, not letting you pass till he'd sprayed you. He must have been so bored bless him  

It's not QUITE as bad as it sounds..... you are supposed to use the hand sanitiser whenever you enter a food area, or get back on the ship anyway, but usually they're just on the wall and you use it as you pass. This time they covered them up and had a poor bloke stood there with a bottle, not letting you pass till he'd sprayed you. He must have been so bored bless him  

Oh god. Duds has just come down stairs to purposely remind me (and laugh at me) about something I said yesterday at the airport. 

Bear in mind it had been a long day! I was very tired!  

We were at the airport in Tenerife and had gone through security etc. We had a bit of time before boarding so were on the hunt for some food for lunch. None of the shops we could see had any normal food....just chocolate, but eventually we found a way down to the next floor where the other shops were. 

There were two down escalators with a flight of stairs between them. We were half way down the stairs when I suddenly got worried about there not being an up escalator, so in a very panicky voice I said to Duds "hang on, how are we going to get back up again". He just turned around and looked at me like I had lost my mind and said "you're on a flight of stairs". 

He's NEVER going to let me forget this one. He's saying he can't wait to tell people  

ROFL  

We had ours with us all holiday. I'm not too bothered tbh.... but Duds is, and this time he did us a favour.  

Oh god. Duds has just come down stairs to purposely remind me (and laugh at me) about something I said yesterday at the airport. 

Bear in mind it had been a long day! I was very tired!  

We were at the airport in Tenerife and had gone through security etc. We had a bit of time before boarding so were on the hunt for some food for lunch. None of the shops we could see had any normal food....just chocolate, but eventually we found a way down to the next floor where the other shops were. 

There were two down escalators with a flight of stairs between them. We were half way down the stairs when I suddenly got worried about there not being an up escalator, so in a very panicky voice I said to Duds "hang on, how are we going to get back up again". He just turned around and looked at me like I had lost my mind and said "you're on a flight of stairs". 

He's NEVER going to let me forget this one. He's saying he can't wait to tell people  

I think this may be the stupidest thing I've ever said.  I just hope the people on the escalators next to me didn't hear....or couldn't speak English  

I think this may be the stupidest thing I've ever said.  I just hope the people on the escalators next to me didn't hear....or couldn't speak English