Saturday March 14th - This morning we rounded the southernmost point of South Korea on our way to our next port, Incheon, 232 miles to the north west of us. The seas are rough, with 30mph winds (50kph) and the current temperature is 7 degC (45 degF) but it’s not all bad, it’s sunny cloudy and it’s not raining. In the morning, we attended a lecture on Korea, history and information on the Incheon area by Maureen O’Crowley, an American married to a Korean, living in Seoul, then we met friends in the Royal Lounge for trivia. After lunch, I watched a lecture by Glenmore Trenear-Harvey, espionage insider and expert, on Russian Intelligence and the coming return to the cold war, very interesting. Later we went to the medical centre and Izzy had some follow up blood tests. The results were good and the doc decided that Warfarin shots were no longer required instead small doses of Aspirin would suffice, we were happy to hear the news. After dinner, since we had just left Japan, we watched the movie ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’.
Captain William Kent
Since tomorrow marks the half way point of our voyage (53 to 54 days) it would be prudent to add a profile of the ships captain. We had met him briefly at a reception some weeks ago, then tonight, we met him once again in the medical centre when Izzy went to get her blood test results. I took the opportunity to ask him about the story of the sack of potatoes and he was kind enough to explain, if you want more details email me. Captain William Kent, born and educated in Boston, England, joined P&O (Princess parent company) in 1974 and has served on many P&O/Princess cruise ships. Married with 2 daughters, his first command position was in 2004, as captain of the Regal Princess.
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