On behalf of a nation of espresso-sipping extremists, Silversea’s Silver Muse is doing god’s work in the caffeinating department.
The world is replete with food and wine nationalists. The French want nothing to do with any drop that hasn’t emerged from the mystical depths of their own native terroir; no cheese is any good to the Swiss unless it’s riddled with the requisite number of holes; and to the Japanese no rice compares to that grown beneath the magical waters and soils below the rising and radiating sun of their own land.
The discovery comes aboard Silver Muse, part of the Silversea brand of cruise ships. It has Italian heritage, though is now owned by the US-based Royal Caribbean group.I’m aboard the ship for a 14-day cruise, not beginning in Rome but starting from Auckland, a city that knows its coffee from a country that claims to have invented the flat white.
My preference is for a cruise line that celebrates and adheres to its national origins. Too many cruise ships are, to use the American term, straight from a “cookie cutter”, with the only point of difference being the size of the go-kart circuit or the length of the water slides. Each to their own.Silversea, along with the Norwegian Viking, the British Cunard and the French Ponant, strongly maintains its national origins.
For a ship belonging to such a conservative cruise line, with a colour that rarely ventures beyond brown and beige , Silver Muse also features a surprisingly unconventional, largely contemporary art collection with virtually every piece throughout the vessel created by an Italian artist.Not every work impresses, such as blowhard sculptured pieces fashioned from hair-dryers.
But I find myself drawn back at dinner time to La Terrazza, where fresh pasta, such as excellent pappardelle with duck ragu, is served daily and where guests can dine, when conditions allow, al fresco on the deck outside the main dining room right at the mid-deck stern of this sleek and compact ship.
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