P & O Ventura, cabin D 730, 21st April 2018,

This is my third cruise on Ventura.As I write we are sailing to Canary Islands having left Southampton about three hours ago. My first dining experience - dinner at 6 in the Saffron restaurant - was utterly stomach churning and no,not because the food was unpalatable. What was the problem? The eating habits of some of the travellers! There was a couple sitting at a table to the left of me. The man, 75 or so, having finished the roast lamb started picking his teeth with a tooth-pick.First tooth-pick, second tooth-pick, third tooth-pick.I tried not to look at him,but how can you not look at someone who is sitting almost opposite? And then up went the fingers.Yes, he was scraping and digging with his fingers. The full cavity work.I despaired. And then the neighbour to the right of me joined him! In unison, first a tooth-pick,then a finger! Oh,I have seen some disgusting things being done, but this was a double whammy that would make a strong man weep! I can see I am in for a bumpy sail.