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Still looking back. Rarely do I venture to where the next picture illustrates. The Gym is immediately below the Library on deck 7! This is by no means a complete tour of the ship. That was my intention.  However, I finsh with a few random images. I finish with.. U This concludes my brief trip…

It’s now Sunday, 1st September 2024, my second full day at home.  Here are further pictures taken during my last-minute tour of Queen Mary 2.  Before the final dinner and the show time, I ambled up to decks 12 – 14 and caught one of those understated but remarkable sunsets.  Continued late 3/9/24 Part two…

The last full day of the journey is over.  It is 01.18 hrs , B.S.T. as I write.  I shall continue some time later today. Day 30.  This is Day 30. It’s beautiful here in Southampton after an unexpectedly celebratory 400th crossing of the Atlantic by R.M.S. Queen Mary 2.  Evening has arrived, and after…

Meet the Captain and hopefully, a pictorial tour of R.M.S. Queen Mary 2 from Deck 2 to Deck 14. I woke up far too early this morning and continued writing Blog 153.  It took around 3 hours, if not more, to complete and publish.  It still needs polishing up.   The handshake with Captain Hall was…

SYNOPSIS PART 2 Started Tuesday 27/8/24. Niagara Falls to SYRACUSE To begin with, I did doubt the wisdom of three nights here. A very heavy and prolonged shower scuppered any exploration of this seemingly dull place during the first morning. Also, the much taken-for-granted temperatures of the mid to high 20s Celsius had given way…

Washington DC  to Niagara Falls This is the life! Today is the 26th of this “unplanned” and unexpected return to North America primarily to attend the marriage my great nephew Reuben to his partner Ainsley both of whom I had the great pleasure of meeting in Washington D.C. during a “planned and expected” vacation two…

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…

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…

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…

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…