After the first day, the open decks were "out of bounds" I did get out on 1 deck lido to get some video but was quickly spotted and asked firmly to go back inside. The only place where you could go out was on Sun deck behind the funnel.
Things got quite bad and I had to visit the doc's for "the" injection, first and only time, but it was a remarkable trip. The ship creaked and groaned all the way across but little seemed to be spilled or fall over.
I remember one night walking down the corridor towards midships lobby when the ship seemed to go down a flight of stairs, a very steep flight of stairs, everything shuddered and shook. When we reached the restaurant the Captain came on the PA and said we'd been hit by a freak wave, only minor damage to the ship i.e. some of the handrails were ripped off the port side bridge wing
We were lucky enough to have a table by the window in the Mauritania restaurant which was on upper deck in those days, and the water would rush up the side of the ship and cover these windows.
We never saw
anything on the way out, not a bird or even a floating stick, let alone a ship. Every afternoon I sat in the Yacht club looking out to sea, it was like riding a fantastic roller coaster up there.
There return trip was really unremarkable, Sunshine, warm, 30knots all the way, the crew got excited one afternoon as she reached 31.5, so I'm told. The only thing that caused a stir was Concorde flying over us each afternoon with it's double supersonic boom.
The silver lining on the trip was the free night onboard, some people left that night but we decided to stay on, as you would. The ship had been charted for a private party the following few days, which is why we were given the option to stay onboard.
There were many of these pictures available in the photoshop at the time and for the next few years, I've no idea if they would still be available now.
