Sleep is overrated
It’s currently 5:23am and I am sat in the lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 5. I caught a coach to get here at 00:55am today, and apart from the disjointed naps on the coach interrupted by a lolling head occasionally banging into the window, I haven’t slept since yesterday morning.
At the end of the day, I’m not complaining. I knew what I signed up for for this job, and as the old saying goes “the game is in the game”. But there’s no denying that I really am actually quite tired.
I’m on my way to Rome to join the Norwegian Epic cruise ship for 3 weeks. When I say Rome, I mean Civitavecchia. It’s like how ships say they are docking in London when in fact they are in Southampton. It’s possible to travel to the desired destination, if you wake up before the sun, and don’t allow time for food. Between you and me (lol!) three weeks is longer than I would like to do on ships to be honest. But I’ve got 2 more “three weekers” left this year, so I’m going to do what I can to make the most of them.
The good news is, I am pretty sure I am not performing my show until day 5 of the cruise, so it gives me a few days to gain back the essential pieces of sleep that I’ve lost.
Why am I telling you this? I think that it’s interesting, and surely, that’s enough, right? May I remind you that you don’t have to be reading this. Or this. Or even this. But you are. You need more hobbies! In all seriousness, I like seeing behind the scenes, and all too often the online presence is overly edited and polished red-raw so that all you see is the glamour in even the most mundane of events. I think it’s important to show that it’s not all glamour, and that’s totally ok.
Sat here with a mouth that tastes like coffee and mornings, clothes that smell of travel, and dry and droopy face, this is far from glamourous. But it could always be worse. I could be sat in Starbucks.
I’ll be hopefully doing more blog posts over the next few weeks onboard. Let me know if there’s anything you’d like to know or want me to write about.
Have a lovely day you absolute beauties. Treat yourself to a snack, and have that nap on the sofa. You deserve it!