An incredibly long taxi at Heathrow this afternoon, over thirty minutes in total, meant that we were not off the ground until 14:55, full forty minutes after our scheduled push back.

Menus have been distributed and I’m surprised to see the Castelnau back on the drinks list. The menu is 04/25 so not a recycling of old menus, let’s see what is served.




The afternoon tea has changed slightly since the last time I had it. The stupid finger sandwich with the spread on the outside has gone but overall the sandwiches were disappointingly dry. At least the menu was correct and the Castelnau is back





The crew were not having the greatest of days. My first cup was cracked and spread coffee on Mr 1D and then his cup was also cracked and he had a second dousing!

Ten minutes to landing announcement came at 15:25 which will put us on the ground only ten minutes late which just goes to show how much slack there is in the NCL schedule.

And here I am landside at 15:50 waiting for an uber.

A fun little diversion, even if I did have to sacrifice lunch

Back to the regular scheduled programming tomorrow night with the start of the Kentucky trip, see you then.