Overnight we lost another hour on the clock as we motored speedily at 18 knots east across the crowded Bay of Bengal towards the Strait of Malacca. Today was totally filled with lectures and other EXC presentations. The 9am morning coffee chat with Ashok Ferrey was a great start to the day. It was followed by Terry Greenberg's full house presentation on Chinese Admiral Zheng He's expeditions which were larger than any European version and using ships large enough to hold all of Christopher Columbus' and Vasco deGama's ships on their main decks!
Robert, the Staff Chief Engineer gave a terrific virtual engine room tour filmed on a GOPRO camera. Unfortunately he wouldn't take any questions. Strangely again, KK introduced him instead of our Cruise Director. After lunch Ashok presented part II of his class on writing and Kristy King presented on Sea turtles. Maria Faulkner presented what in my opinion was the weakest presentation on personal photos taken of her and her family. Then Terry Greenberg returned with another full house talk about living with headhunters in Borneo titled "Where getting ahead meant getting a head".
We enjoyed a pop up Sel de Mer dinner in the Pinnacle Grill with friends John &Carol before attending the nightly story time with Maria and John (the EXC photographers). They read long passages from their blogs about helping refugees in Macedonia and we didn't find it an effective means of communication for this venue.
We concluded our evening watching the 10pm Showroom at Sea performance by Tomono Kawamura who we saw on our 2017 Asia cruise on the Volendam.
Tomorrow's schedule will have a bit of relief and it's our final Gala Night.
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