Life on the ship

·         The M/S Adagio is a beautiful ship.  It has three floors and a top deck that is wonderful to lounge on and take in the views of Budapest.  The top floor of the ship has cabins with small decks (enough to fit two chairs on—no table) but the advantage is a sliding glass door.  The next two floors have windows for viewing, but they do not open—no fresh air.  They are bigger rooms because they don’t have the tiny decks.

·         The biggest  complaint of the passengers is that when in port, you are usually parking next to another ship.  So when you look our your deck or window, you may be looking into the next ship’s cabin.  Fortunately, two of our rooms are on one side of the ship (which is facing shore today) and we actually have a view.  In the next port, we may not have that advantage, so one of our rooms is on the other side.  We hope to have one open side of the ship for our gatherings in the afternoon for happy hour.

·         The dining room is surrounded by windows.  The lounge is also surrounded by windows.  There is a library, exercise room (which is mostly vacant—because of the elderly age of most passengers) and it has a whirlpool and sauna.  There is also a massage therapist on board.  Mary can tell you about her foot massage yesterday.

·         The best part of the day is early in the morning and late in the evening.  The views are fantastic.  We are waking up early, and there is 24 hour coffee, espresso and capacinno service in the lounge, so you don’t have to wait.  There are usually fruit and pastries too.

Happy hour in the Gray's cabin

·         Our happy hour last night consisted of warm Hungarian beer served over ice (Soporini an d Kozel) and a Hungarian red wine cabarnet wine (less than 2 buck check) that wasn’t half bad.  Tonight we drink a more expensive wine that we have bought on the street.  We are sampling all the local fare—looking for apricot stuffed chocolate –perhaps we will find it on our shopping trip today.