At Sea Again.

Well, blogger's, we're at sea again, if only for a couple of days. We've had two days in Souda Bay, Crete. And to be honest, it wasn't that great. The weather was like England in the autumn. We had a sports afternoon on the 29th and the ships teams had a bit of training and we also had a knock around five-a-side tournament between the messdecks. The girlie's have finally decided that they would like to do some sport so they've got themselves a netball team together. Their first match is against the R.A.F when we get to Limassol (not sure of the spelling), The lads have got a rugby and football team together but I'm not sure when they are playing. They did have a match whilst we were in Gibraltar, which i forgot to mention. They played HMS Edinburgh and won 4-3. With regard to the five-a-side, even i played in that!!! although i was only in goal. We won the plate final. Once all the sport had finished, we returned on board to get showered and changed and a few of us from my mess went into Chania. We had a meal in a restaurant on the marina, which I'd done a couple of years ago whilst i was here. It was a different restaurant, and the food was awful!!! I ended up paying 35 euro's for a starter, main course and about 3/4 of a bottle of wine, which, incidentally tasted like vinegar. We'd got sat down and ordered at about 1930/1945. The last bus left to get back to the ship at 2200, because leave expired at 2359, yes we do have a curfew in certain places. But i digress, we still hadn't received our main course at 2140! so we were starting to get a bit edgy. A couple of us were already socially confused and not appreciating the delay. To be honest, neither could we as the restaurant was empty apart from one other table of four, and ours, we had about 10-12 people at ours. Well, anyway, we managed to get back just in time to get the bus, but a couple of lads decided that they'd stay out and get a taxi back a little later. They were adrift of the 2359 curfew and will now not be allowed ashore in Limassol. Yesterday we had a normal working day, which, buy the way, is eight in the morning until four in the afternoon. We were granted leave, but weren't allowed off base!! A lot of people weren't very happy about this, but hey, never mind, get over it. I did, i went to bed quite early after watching the newest installment of Indiana Jones. Well, today, we've been doing some trials and things on our radars and things so that's kept us quite busy, and we continue our transit to Limassol. Speak to you all soon.