After ten days almost constantly on board your perception of the ship's movement changes. Sometimes you don't even notice it at all. You think everything is steady and only when you look out of a window you realize that she in fact is banking heavily to one side.

Also, life by now is developing some kind of routine. Getting up at quarter to eight. Shaving, showering. Then breakfast which, as every meal, is followed by have an hour or so on the starboard side rail. During the rest of the morning some typing or reading. Lunch at noon sharp which is when the Captain comes off his watch. Now siesta -- this is a Spanish ship, after all. This can easily take till four. Then some more reading, if possible somewhere outside in the sun. Dinner at six. After, it is already dark, some more time at the laptop or reading. To bed early.

The weather has stabilized somewhat. The see is still rather high but nothing as extrem as last night.