This is the second of two sea days from Bangkok to Singapore, sailing down the Gulf of Thailand. Stately pace of approx. 30km/h. now 398 km from Singapore.
The food is excellent as usual. Breakfast in the Terrace Restaurant is so varied and plentiful that, in an attempt to reduce my intake on sea days, I have taken to avoiding it in favor if the simpler fare in the quieter forward Horizons lounge, where the temptation to ovet-indulge is less. Who needs eggs Benedict every day, or heaps of bacon, eggs, biscuits, salmon, donuts, etc?
From Horizons, which has a 270 degree view through glass floor to ceiling windows, I saw a pod of dolphins this AM, swimming along the bow wave.
The large area route map below is a screenshot on my Android tablet of the OSMAND (osmand.net) open source maps app project, which does not require an internet connection to use, as google maps does in this part of the world where at Android version of google maps does not allow local caching of maps. (Osmand does not have an iphone app.) These are nice maps, and I used them in Spain this last fall to navigate. You can download up to 10 maps at a time free.
The route map shows three of our stops: Bangkok, Singapore and Phuket. The Singapore map demonstrates the detail available.
The maps are linked to the GPS receiver in my Android tablet, so most important navigation info is available for display.
No comments:
Post a Comment