Category: Cruise Ships
Copenhagen II
Part of UN City Copenhagen, apparently the biggest humanitarian warehouse in the world: Bit difficult to square with its proximity to what used to be a cruise terminal and now an exclusive Padel club. We didn’t see limousines, but plenty of Teslas.
MSC Nederland II and Crystal Serenity
I’ve been distracted by things, and injured by a stupid Swede who didn’t observe a white line indicating “STOP” a week ago: This morning I got bored of my pity party and got back to Maker’s to catch some meaningful offloading on a rainy Saturday morning (MSC N II, Panama flag, 237m): Then came the…
Queen Mary 2 (II)
Sneak attack visit once Queen Victoria had departed in the dead of night and the traffic had lost interest. Cunard “flagship”: Named by QE2 in 2004, celebrating all the queens. Bermuda flag: what’s up with that? Interestoid: My husband’s family DID travel to SA from Southampton on the SA Vaal – with a ka, nogal…
Queen Mary 2, the cost of VOR, and stuff
No visits to Maker’s this week, as the cruise ships kept coming. On Wednesday (31 Jan), Queen Mary 2 (QM2). Slightly less boring, as she’s apparently the “only ocean liner in service in the world”. (Unlike “normal” cruise ships, ocean liners carry people, things, and mail. JR and family arrived in SA on one such…
MSC Helena
Supply chain from boat to truck (on a Sunday morning, nogal): Meanwhile, the cruise ship was getting a new load of “fresh” fruit (sniffed by dogs – as if the geriatrics stumbling between the V&A and this vessel are not more obvious mules for getting drugs on board – and sampled by “inspecting” crew –…
Vasco Da Gama
Cape Town Cruise Terminal gainfully employed this morning processing passengers disembarking cruise ship Vasco Da Gama – a grand tour, no doubt, leaving from Luderitz, Namibia on the eve of Halloween, piloted into Cape Town by a 5.45am sunrise to be berthed at 6.06am (“two full nights” later). The logistics of arranging for a boat…