Ruminations from the Silver Muse.

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The admission was 1000 yen but 800 for seniors. There was audio at every point around the ship. First in Japanese and then English.



And in the cadet training days the deck was scrubbed every morning.

 

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I wondered what the coconuts were for. Well it was these that were used to scrub the decks.







For the weekly wash.

 

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Continuing the exploration.


Fortunately a better set of stairs to go up.




Time to practice your knots.


The engine.




The engineers office.

 

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The cadets bunks.



Doctors rooms and medical unit.




Operating theatre.



Lecture theatre and dining room for cadets.

 

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More of the galley.





And what is said was a normal meal.


But then a photo of the cadets eating. I think maybe the last picture was of the Captain's meal.


Some photos of when it was a working ship. But at times they do have it fully rigged.

 

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The Captain's quarters.






They had the same tiles as our bathroom in the 1950s.
More officer's digs.

 

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Lovely stained glass ceiling.



Cadets shower.




The real steering wheel.

 

[drron]

Now time to disembark. A most important sign.



There were a lot of staff presenting an exhibition of mariner's photos. One young fellow speaking perfect English persuaded me to don the Captain's Uniform and he would take my picture.


Fitted perfectly. So when I hopped up on the box several older staff were going around the crowd speaking Japanese. This resulted in several young children running over and taking my photo. so now a Yokohama legend.
Some of the mariner's photos.

 

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So time to walk back to the hotel.




At the Queen's mall another festival.


The Keio University Jazz band were playing and they were good.





The drummer was excellent. At one stage he dropped the stick from his left hand,reached behind and caught it and then threw it in the air catching again as if it was part of the act.

 

[drron]

It was then time to take Mrsdrron out to another mall where I had found some of her favourite shops. Uniglo, Marimekko and another Daiso store. Once again at Daiso she found a few items she didn't realise she needed. I had intended to find a restaurant for a late lunch.
Also found a supermarket. Love walking around Japanese supermarkets. Ended up buying some sushi and Kyoho grapes for dinner. An extensive array of sushi and cheaper than our local Woollies.






There was also live music in the mall.

 

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Our last night and a p/arade of boats to watch fireworks. I assumed their way of saying goodbye to us.

 

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Up at 0600 to see the Muse come in.









It was the worst day of our trip so far. Cold, rain and wind. I had been going for another walk this morning and planning on buying a bottle or 2 of Japanese gin. Did walk over to the gin stalls. Only 3 of 6 open, one only sold mixed drinks, one didn't sell by the bottle and the last was packing up and leaving but they agreed to sell a bottle. fortunately they were my number 1 pick.


Coming back to the hotel I thought the umbrella was going to invert on several occasions. Virtually no one out and about. There was one Japanese fellow in a phone box taking pictures of the harbour though.
Then when back in the room there were hardy souls queuing to get into the Exhibition building next door.

 

[Seat0B]

Once again at Daiso she found a few items she didn't realise she needed.

That happens to me at every Daiso and Donki shop I visit

 

[drron]

Back to our last breakfast at the IC Yokohama. BA must put their staff up here. We did see several Asian airline staff as well Not that far from Haneda.



And my breakfast.



As it was such an awful day and we were able to have a late check out we only left the hotel at 1430, Got a taxi to the pier. Took the taxi a while to get access as a couple of vans were blocking all traffic So ended up a 1300 yen fare ( $A15 ). But all undercover. Dropped off our bags fairly quickly, Filled in the health Questionnaire, checked in and had our photos taken, Ship card issued and on boarding straight to our suite. Were in there a bit before 1515. Luggage arrived 5 minutes later.
So our verandah suite.

 

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Some of the floral displays on board.

 

[Seat0B]

So our verandah suite.

Some of the floral displays on board.

Both look gorgeous! I'm following along with great interest.

 

[RooFlyer]

Possibility of a few more pics of the cabin, please drron?

 

[drron]

So a walk through of our verandah suite. Yes on Silversea they are all called suites not cabins.