Category: North America
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Final thoughts
For starters, here are some pictures of the Queen Mary 2, very kindly forwarded to me by Jay, after my comment on the previous post that I hadn’t managed to get any photos of our home for the last week of the journey. I do have her permission to share. A beautiful, comfortable ship –…
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Day 97 – 14th October (Queen Mary 2 to home)
Up earlyish for a 9.20 departure from the ship. Jean elected to have breakfast, but as it’s never been an important meal for me and I really wasn’t hungry, I stayed in the stateroom, did the last bits of packing and checked that we really had cleared all our stuff out of every cupboard, drawer…
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Day 96 – Queen Mary 2 (Day 7)
Last full day of the whole shooting-match (sob!). Got up early (for us, anyway) to see a talk by Dave Wright, the resident historian, who’d done some excellent material earlier in the cruise on Mary Queen of Scots and Lawrence of Arabia. His topic was St. George, the patron saint of England (and, it transpires,…
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Day 95 – Queen Mary 2 (Day 6)
Wet and foggy day. Bearing in mind that we had a posh lunch booked, I just had a coffee at breakfast. Jean tucked in as usual, even though she was starting a cold. Today was the day that the clock didn’t go forward an hour at midday, so we had an extra hour to attend…
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Day 94 – Queen Mary 2 (Day 5)
Well, I’m glad to report that the room service breakfast was a success. Delivered in the time frame, good quality and remarkably hot. Saves quite a bit of time. I’m sure you needed to be reassured on this point. However, no hot water, so the shave was less pleasant and a shower was out of…
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Day 93 – Queen Mary 2 (Day 4)
After breakfast, we attended a talk given by Christopher Ward, the grandson of one of the musicians who lost their lives when the Titanic sank in 1912. His grandfather was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and he laid flowers on his grandfather’s grave when the ship visited Halifax on the current trip. Despite this, he…
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Day 92 – Queen Mary 2 (Day 3)
Another decent enough breakfast in the King’s Court buffet, with the skies being cloudier than yesterday. Every day (except one) at 12 midday, the Captain announces that the ship’s clock will go forward one hour as we move through time zones. At the time, the ship’s hooter sounds, and this bell is rung in the…
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Day 91 – Queen Mary 2 (Day 2)
A very good buffet breakfast – kippers! Woo-hoo! There followed a fascinating talk from Roger McGuinn – he of the Byrds and the rectangular specs – about how he got into the music business and a social commentary of the times, plus guitar demos – he was famous, inter alia, as a 12-string master. Right…
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Day 90 – Queen Mary 2 (Day 1)
Sorry about the late post – VERY dodgy Internet. Nice leisurely start to the day and cloudless blue skies. After a decent breakfast (excellent omelette), we returned to our room to pack with that slightly sad feeling one has when things are coming to an end. As we had plenty of time before we needed…
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Day 89 – 6th October (New York)
At last! Sunshine! Blue skies! Warm temperatures! Hooray! Ironically, we spent most of our time indoors today. 🙄 I’d booked tickets for the OneWorld Observatory which you know, as you’ve been religiously following my ramblings, is at the top of One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western hemisphere, a half-mile walk away…