The Brilliant MSC Splendida or Cruise to and from the Atlantic (continued)
The liner departs from the pier, a farewell whistle, and we are sailing towards Spain to Barcelona. And we, while there is time, a walk along the liner with its brilliant exterior and interior. We walked along the outer deck to the central pools (there are open and under a sliding roof). On deck, the wind showed us that it was still February and drove us into the elevator, which we used to descend into the central atrium of the ship. He was already familiar to me from the photo of the members of the forum, but that photo, and here you can walk along the brilliant steps, lean on this brilliant piano, nearby - in the next room you can sit near the jets of the fountain, pleasant Italian melodies sound, but a training alarm sounds and we are invited with life jackets to the aft hall, where discos usually take place (The Aft Longe). They came, they told us in different languages how theoretically to be saved in case of emergency, and we went off to prepare for dinner. For myself, looking around, I saw that near the cabin there is an exit to the balcony for smoking and viewing the sea with an emergency ladder and up and down. Most of all, just in case, it will be necessary to wander less along Splendid's endless corridors. But let's not think about the bad, we are going to the first dinner at the restaurant.
There are two main restaurants on the ship - at the stern "Villa Verde", our restaurant "La Reggia" is in the center of the ship. We decided to drop in for an idea of the restaurant "Villa Verde" and went down to the 6th deck. Impressed, then in my concept you have to go to the center to the atrium and go to our restaurant. Not difficult, we go to the center - a dead end, went down to the 5th deck, again a dead end. It turns out that it is impossible to walk along these decks from the stern to the center and bow of the ship. We went up to the 7th deck, through the photo gallery and the wine cellar we reached the atrium, and down these shiny steps we went down to the entrance to our restaurant. I remembered the American Voyager, where the street-promenade was the central axis of the ship, on which there were basically all the bars, cafes, shops, etc. , restaurants (three) at the stern, everything was clear. But still we are in a restaurant, a table for six, all the guys from Ukraine, our friends and guys from Kyiv. We are served by a waiter from Indonesia with a name that is not remembered. It was decided to take a bag of wine and water, as we already know that it will be more expensive if taken separately. Four bottles of wine (two white and two red) and six bottles of gas water cost the waiter 90 euros in tips. Thought - "not weak". Considering. that not so long ago they dined, they didn’t particularly strain (salads, veal roll, some kind of herbal green stuffing is wrapped in it, and there seeds like melons, dessert like cake, women took ice cream). We dug into it under the wine, we decided to go up to Pago - Pago, there are drinks, fruits, and there is ice for whiskey, for which we had to look into the cabin. That is, we added and went to the theater for a performance. I will not describe all of them, they were somehow similar all the days. A few corps de ballet dances, a little circus, songs both acapello and otherwise. But it looked and sounded good. Especially since we had, but in the "Greek hall" or in this theater - what's the difference. Although it was possible to order all this from the stewards, who scurried around the hall all the time, but it was expensive, and even more so, we had it. The performance ended, and everyone decided to do what they want. The people of Kiev went to try their luck at the casino, we went to see what kind of disco on the ship. Rather, it was like ours - “for those who are behind... substitute any numbers”, but live music, a girl sings Italian, Spanish and other songs from disco and tango to rock, there is an ensemble. In general, fun, smoke rocker. This is how the day went. Tomorrow we are in Barcelona.
