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  • 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…