Things Are Sweet.......

Just when you thought you didn't want to see anything else fattening or sickly over this festive season I thought I would share with you some images of the superb Gingerbread Village put together by Trevor Connolly (Executive Chef), Jason Das (Executive Pastry Chef) and their teams.

Work begins on producing the village many weeks in advance and construction takes place overnight in the atrium which, as you can see, is transformed. We have not yet invented 'scratch and sniff' blogs, but if we did have them I would insert a 'patch' in here now and you wouldn't believe it - it's wonderful!

Today is a sea day - but it is also the birthday of the Life President of P&O Cruises, Lord Sterling, who is travelling on the cruise with us. Shhhh - don't tell anyone but we are planning a surprise curry lunch for him in The Orchid (our Asian Fusion Restaurant) as we know he likes 'a belter' of a curry. Executive Chef has been working on a particularly hot one for him and I'm looking forward to sampling that one myself to be honest!

Anyhow, a few meetings to go to this morning - planning the 'nitty gritty' of the Grand Voyage now so I can hand it all over to James when he returns on 5th January.

Keep well.

Ian

Current Thought: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust, 1841 - 1922, French writer