Steve got up for breakfast, but I slept late. Some people went back into town this morning or just through the port to the shops around here. We lazed around with no desire to go anywhere.
Steve has been working on a puzzle in the library. A girl had started it, but said the first one she started got put away, so she left a note on this one, not to put it away, she’s coming back. Steve has been back several times without seeing her, but when he goes, he often finds pieces have been put in, so maybe. [In the end, the puzzle had about 15 pieces missing and a similar number of pieces belonging to different puzzles. Not the most satisfying.]
The “library” has paper backs around the walls, a few computers (but no Internet connection without paying the exorbitant fee), and card tables, so this afternoon (as we sail down the Sea of Marmara) it is full and noisy. The pool area is also full and noisy, and I can’t imagine sitting there without getting terribly sun burned. There is a real lack of indoor areas to sit out of the wind and sun and watch the shore—only the one fairly small lounge on the 14th deck mid-aft that mostly looks out over the pool area. It has been closed several times for private functions.
The music around the pool is dance party stuff. We went to the piano bar one afternoon, but Steve plays better and was irritated by the lack of accurate rhythms. Not our Danube cruise with MPR and Minnesota Orchestra musicians.
Leaving Istanbul, we sailed down the Sea of Marmara and through the Dardanelles. Fascinating. A long peninsula came down the starboard side, but wide enough to have towns on it.
At dusk we went under the longest suspension bridge in the world, built in 2022. Steve sat in the Deck 14 lounge so he passed right under, while I went to the front of the ship and took this video.
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