At 5:50 I heard the alarm rang with the sound of my phone, only at lower volume. So first, I thought I would have covered it, but then I remembered that this is impossible, it was directly beside me and then I realized that the sound came from outside, apparently the captain or the chief engineer used the same sound (we are the only persons sleeping in level F-deck). At breakfast I heard about the next delay: we will stay in Melbourne until 1400 (except of leaving in the morning), because at the port, they don’t have enough workers to fix the containers on board (loading cargo has been finished at night).
Today, we got typical Romanian soup with cow stomach and I was taught what else is necessary: tons of garlic, heaps of sour cream and enough vinegar. For dinner, as a rule, the soup of lunch is served a second time and the big pot was again completely full. (Soup and salad are taken individually, the main course comes on a plate) Even if everybody (around 10 persons) would have eaten a big portion, that would have been less than half of it. So, I asked the capitain what would happen to that soup. He said it can be served again tomorrow, if I like it. We talked a bit about that and in the end, it was clear that normally the soup would be thrown away. In the evening, I also saw one officer who always eats only a third or half of the dish, now eating bread with butter after leaving the unfinished plate aside. I wonder how people can act like that. Do they think we are in the land of milk and honey, don’t they know no one who had been hungry because there was no food available? I think Romania so far was not the land of milk & honey and poverty is ubiquitous, so why can’t they connect this to their own behaviour?
This lunch, we got a yoghurt and I wanted to keep it for the afternoon, if I feel hungry. I didn’t. Still I get too much too eat, because the messman wants to do me a favour, maybe because I am a bit friendlier than the average here? I wonder, if I soon can manage this better, or if I even will gain weight instead of losing some. At least, I do something every day. Today in the gym, I asked someone if there is a place for practising pull-ups and he showed me a construction on deck.
the magnet clip apparently works well, I was not locked out anymore
Last July at Kieser, I could do 9-10 in the slow way of 4sec pulling up, holding 2sec and going down again in another 4sec. Today I could do only 7 “normal” ones. So I guess that those +5kg are even more, because I will have lost muscles and exchanged them with another portion of fat. I’ll keep you updated ?
The ship really left at 1400 and I filmed the way out, because it was the reverse direction to my arrival exactly 2 months before.
2nd good bye, Melbourne 
The opening of the big bay in front of Melbourne… 
…called Port Philip 
now outside of Port Philip 
soon, the pilot will leave the “Puccini”
Tomorrow I will ask for details about the arrival in Adelaide, now I just guess it is 1000km, that would be around 2days of going.
I tried many times to photograph this big stone… 
…and don’t know which settings finally worked well