Tuesday, Aug 30. Air travel, on a scale of 10, goes from terrible to tolerable. There are too few flights that rank above tolerable, so that’s the top end. Our trip rates a 5. A delayed connection in Montreal got us to Lyon at 4:30, rather than noon. Hot hot hot. Subsequently, we didn’t get off the ship at all. But on arrival there was no hint of the forecast rain. Hope it holds through tomorrow.

But the ship is fine. The crew seems fun. The people are rocking, literally. At 10:00 there were 15+ dancing! (I was told that 90 people had done a cruise just before this one, so they had already melded.) The bar is busy. Our first meal was fantastic. I had a steak with lightly flavored blue cheese, which was surprisingly quite good. Sweet potato soup. The first two house wines were very pedestrian, but the third (2020 Hermitage) was very acceptable. We’ll do some shopping tomorrow for better.