At 11am we attended an interdenominational service led by the Deputy Captain. The Captain will lead next Sunday. Another officer played the organ on electronic keyboard and a junior officer read the Bible. There was no sermon and the words spoken were presumably all from the book of common prayer. We felt we were back in the 17th century.
In the Buffet we met an English couple who live in Durban and embarked in Cape Town. They said they only decided to take the trip to Southampton on Tuesday when they received a special offer by email saying there were only three cabins left on the ship. They gave us another slant on the changes taking place in South Africa. They told us about President Zuma's $20 million retirement house, funded by the taxpayer.
At 2pm we went to the classical concert which was performed by a new duo. A pianist Marina from Munich and a violinist Angelica from London, who called themselves Zeitgeist (spirit of the times). A very lovely selection of pieces, including Meditation from Thais and Vivaldi's summer. They will be giving three more concerts.
At 3:30 there was a lecture by Dan Wilkins who did a PhD in astronomy at Cambridge and is now working at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was very keen to explain to us how they use the different "colours" or wavelengths of the spectrum to further our knowledge of the universe. Always mindboggling.
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