We had the roughest seas since January's Pacific roller coaster this week. Between Lisbon and Le Havre, things were really pitching (forward-back motion) as well as rolling (side to side). Yoga on the morning before Le Havre was a memorable experience. I think the magnitude of the motion was unexpected by the crew, though, as things weren't secured before the rocking got intense. I ended up turning the book return cart on its side to prevent it rolling away, and securing other loose items in the library at around 1am the night we left Lisbon, and shelving books the next day required a lot of balance and core strength! Once we got closer to France on Friday, things calmed down a lot and most people returned to their normal color.
Sr, Jr, and I opted to stay in the Normandy area during the time we are docked in Le Havre. About 200 (1/3 of the total) passengers disembarked in France, and another 200 are embarking today and tomorrow, so I have had a few shipboard duties this port. We did have some time to explore, and really enjoyed a couple of laid back days in Honfleur and Le Have, two charming towns in the Normandy region. We found our own way to historic Honfleur via local bus yesterday, and today we rented bikes in Le Havre after visiting a very fine collection of impressionist paintings. Grandpa took an SAS trip to Paris and will be back tomorrow before we sail for Belgium.
I gave what was probably my last introduction to shipboard library services at tonight's welcome presentation for new voyagers. Now that we have begun the second segment of the EV, my family is in the home stretch of our adventures around the world. In just about two weeks, we will be returning home for the first time since late December. But before we do that, we have bit more work, a few more ports, a lot of sorting and packing.
Pics: impossibly cute Honfleur; mussels for lunch in Le Havre; Jr on the beachfront playground in front of the mussel restaurant.
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