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Blog 151. Day 24. Black and White.
I’m writing this in the early hours of 25th August. Outside, it has been beautiful with immensely calm seas. My energy levels felt sapped, so I took this this opportunity to catch up on blogs, which I had difficulty putting together presumably because I overloaded one of the pages. The 400th crossing was marked today…
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Blog 150 Day 23 of 30 Here we are again… I think there’s to have been some kind of mistake!
Written 24/8/24 It all feels like a dream. As arranged by my travel agent, a chauffeur driven car was to take me to the Cruise Terminal at Red Hook, Brooklyn, where, as I was expecting, Cunard’s flagship Queen Mary 2 was berthed having arrived in the early hours, and most, if not all inbound passengers…
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Blog 149 Day 22 of 30.
START SPREADING THE NEWS Re-written 24/8/24 on board Queen Mary 2. Technical issues prevented me from being able to continue Blog 149 two days ago. Possibly, I had overloaded the page with pictures. I started that day exploring just prior to noon. Having seen the Empire State Building after arrival the previous night, I determined…
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Blog 148 Day 21 of 30 By Amtrak to New York.
Already, I feel like I am on my way home. Business Class on the New York bound Maple Leaf has quite a contingent of Queen Mary 2 passengers who, like me, are spending one final day (2 nights) in the Big Apple. Core! I have left Syracuse behind, the nice hotel right in the heart…
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Blog 147. Day 20 of 30 Another Day in SYRACUSE.
In 2013 and 2019, I had the very good fortune to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Southampton on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2. In 2013, I spent the 5 days before the return crossing travelling to Toronto to visit cruise friends I have known since 1997. At the ungodly hour of (I think) 07.15 hrs, I…
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Blog 146 Day 19 of 30 Good Morning, Syracuse.
Today feels “written off.” I had thought about walking around this morning to try and familiarise myself with this part of my itinerary. If I have interpreted the weather website correctly. I may be able to venture out without getting drenched, later today. As it happens, an extra two days at Niagara Falls would have…
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Blog 145. Day 17 of 30 – Part 2. Fireworks from the River – Finale. Day 18 of 30 – “Moving on
Last night at Niagara Falls was something of a grand finale. It was my final night at the hotel with that fabulous view. And, this morning, I took several longing glances and not a few photographs and videos in an effort to create that perfect image. Many people visit Niagara Falls for the day or…
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Blog 144 Day 17 of 30. Farewell to the Falls.
Rarely would I welcome being awakened (after a late night) at around 06.30 hrs by the piercing beep of a reversing refuse truck doing the rounds of hotels around here. The intermittent disturbance continued for around half an hour. Peeking through my window to curse the source of my disturbed sleep, I was again astounded…
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Blog 143. Day 16 of 30. Continued from last night.
The walk back to the hotel (last night), from the buffet dinner and the fireworks display, was one of the most pleasurable I can recall. Both the American and Horseshoe Falls were illuminated with changing colours, as already portrayed previously. I found a good spot from which to video the fireworks at 10 pm. I…
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Blog 142 Wot no Oatmeal? Memories of Iguazu Falls
My welcome at the Radisson Falls View Hotel yesterday was warm and exuberant, with the promise of a very good hotel room. Being me, I was sceptical. I had already feared that the taxi driver who showed up out of nowhere was going to rip me off. He didn’t, but I gave him a decent-ish…
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