Saturday, December 12, 2015
Message from Dona Bertarelli:
"Don’t ask me what time it is. I’ve got no idea. I don’t even know whether it’s morning, afternoon or evening.
On board we use UTC, also known as GMT. Does that help? Not really: it makes it all the more confusing!
Just to give you an idea, daybreak is at 6.30pm, and nightfall at 1pm. But it gets worse. Lunch is at four o’clock in the morning, and our evening meal is at midday! That should give you an idea of the chaos, but there’s more: all these times shift by an an hour and a half every day.
So I just eat when I’m told to eat, without asking too many questions, but when I woke up this morning I didn’t really enjoy having paella for breakfast.
Things will get even more complicated over the next two days, when we’ll go through the same day twice. Just after New Zealand we’ll cross the International Date Line,
so one minute it will be midnight on December 15th, and the next it will be midnight on December 14th. It’s crazy, but that’s how Phileas Fogg, thinking he’d lost his bet, discovered that actually he had successfully travelled around the world in 80 days.?« !
Blanca López Handrich
SeaClear Communications
blanca@seaclearcommunications.com
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