Woke up to a nice sunrise this morning over brekkie, by myself at first (I’m an early riser), answering emails, checking Facebook, earphones in and rocking out to some 80s tunes because the music they play at breakfast is designed to be as non-challenging as possible for folks still trying to deal with life before coffee. And I get that, but boring music is boring. Speaking of music, I’m rocking the Pete and Bas shirt today.

The general reaction from people on the ship is, “that’s a fun shirt… who are they?” and I tell them, “they’re a couple South London Cockney blokes in their 70s who decided to make a new career as hard-core rappers, and now they’re considered one of the best rap duos of all time.” This is usually met with a look of, “not sure if you’re making that up or not.”

One Malaysian cab driver, though, pointed at the shirt, nudged his friend, and said “Pete and Bas!!! Gangster Shit!!!” (That’s not a review, it’s the name of one of their songs.) It was pretty funny. Tried to talk to him a bit, but his English was almost as bad as my Malay, so we didn’t get far.

Did a bit of a walkabout around the port area. Saw a chicken cross the road, but I didn’t ask him why.

Saw the City Hall (white), the Town Hall (yellow) and the harbour front.

Back on board after just the short walk, because it’s HOT. The cruise director warned everyone that it would be 38C (100F) today with high humidity. It was very near that at 10am when I did my walk. Was happy to get back to the ship and some A/C. I’ll probably hit the pool after I type this. Or maybe I’ll have a nap. Or maybe both. It’s that kind of day. [Did both. The pool was almost as hot as the hot tub!]

I looked it up: 347.06 m (1,139 ft) long, 4,180 passengers in over 2000 cabins. Comparison to Viking Sky, which is 228.2 m (748 ft 8 in) long, 930 passengers in 465 cabins.

Some people like the really big ships, but we don’t. We’ll go up to around 2500 passengers, but that’s as big as we want to deal with.

Also: Someone needs to tell Royal Caribbean that their ship is fugly. At least it’s not one of those 6000+ passenger MSC ships.

Dinner was good. Started out with some kind of ceviche of snapper and fennel. It was wonderful. The main course was lobster and scallops, also delicious. (pictured above). The dessert was a local delicacy, coconut pie (with layers of fresh coconut) and yuzu ice cream.

Just after dinner, there was a nice sunset from our cabin balcony.