Rygsækrejsen 2015-2016: Life on the ferry – waiting, eating, sleeping, waiting, eating….

We actually had a great night's sleep. There were new comfy matresses in the cabins, there were no noise and the sailing had been smooth allnight.

Breakfast time. Time to get excited. Or not. Hardboiled eggs, old bread and tea. Mikkel opted for one of our cupped mashed potatoes and Malene had the muesli we also brought on board.

Oh yeah, Kitchen/cabin lady was not in a better mood today. Rather the opposite.

The day consisted of eating, reading, going outside to look at the ship and the water, sleeping, reading, eating, more looking at the ship, playing backgammon. We did get food. For lunch soup and pasta with chicken. For dinner pasta with chicken. No hint of ketchup, sauce or vegetables! But no complaints it was food. Later in the afternoon the captain came to the common room and put up a note - “Passenger foodstuff times”. Maybe he'd also had a chat with his boss about service. Who knows. Now at least there was a note stating that we would be fed at regular intervals.

And sometimes you figure how to communicate with people with whom you don't share the same language. People in Azerbaijan play a lot of backgammon so of course one of them came to play. Mikkel was teaching Neill how to play – having bit of a hard time explaining the to rules to him because the guy from Azerbaijan was so eager to show how to move on the board. But he was a great guy and several of us ended up playing backgammon with him. Carl also succeeded in communicating with one of the crew members by asking if he could take photos with his 360 degrees camera. One of the crew members was very interested in posing at his desk with all his maps and instruments.

In the afternoon I got to talk with the mechanical engineer. ”How long before we'll be in the port” I asked. 3-4 hours he replied. One hour later we were close to the port but then they dropped the anchor. Not a good sign. Waiting position. More waiting. Dinner. And one more night on the ferry. Apparently it was too windy for the ships to dock. We didn't notice the wind as our ferry was stable as could be. We went to bed with the notice that we might be woken up during the night in case we could sail to the port.