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P&O CRUISES: VENTURA 10-DAY CRUISE TO SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND FRANCE

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DAY FOUR: (11TH APRIL, 2026) A DAY AT SEA

As is our usual routine on a sea day, we had breakfast in the main dining room and I decided on a fried breakfast…

…and Phil had Bircher Museli, followed by some American Pancakes with maple syrup.

We then went to the Arena Theatre to listen to a very interesting talk all about AI by John Walker. It really is amazing what has been achieved in this field in such a short amount of time!

After this presentation, we had a wander around the ship, all the pools were closed off as it was a bit choppy today. The captain told us that the waves will get up to about 6 metres, and there were a lot of sick bags dotted around the ship. We played cards for a while, we have an ongoing Rummy competition which we have been playing since about seven cruises ago and both have topped the leaderboard and both have had enormous scores! If I remember correctly, Phil had a very good run of luck today and so we finished with him in the lead…

At 3pm, we went up to the Epicurean for our afternoon tea. We had this the last time we were on Ventura, about ten years ago and weren’t very impressed but because Phil loves a cream tea, we thought we would try again and boy, this time we weren’t disappointed!

Each portion of the afternoon tea was perfection and it was hard to decide on a favourite, but I thought that the Blueberry Yoghurt Cheesecake was the best and Phil enjoyed the Golden Chocolate Sphere the best.

There were lots of choices of tea as well, I chose the Mao Feng Green Tea and Phil had the Everyday Brew.

After we managed to eat most of the afternoon tea, we definitely were not hungry for a three course meal at 6.30pm. So, we went to a couple of shows: Made in London which was performed by the Headliners Theatre Company which was the best of British music.

Then it was back to the Arena Theatre to watch Dan Conroy, who was Maroon Live earlier in the week, sing his favourite songs and a lot of them were ours too!

By this time, we were starting to feel a bit peckish and so where do you go? To the Waterside buffet of course!! We both had a roast dinner which tasted surprisingly good at 9.30 in the evening…

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