Queens of Three Eras

DAY 7

Sunday February 2nd, 2020 At Sea Bad Hair Day How I have been looking forward to a sea day – a day spent in the Commodore Club and at the pool simply relaxing. The internet is still down, and there is no cell phone...

Feb 4, 2020 5 min read

DAY 6

Saturday February 1st, 2020 Muscat, Oman Happy Birthday Emma! I had no idea that sailing into the harbor in Muscat would be so beautiful. As the sun rose we sailed past steep the mountains and it felt like we were in a fjord...

Feb 4, 2020 4 min read

DAY 5

Friday January 31st, 2020 The Third Queen I had planned to spend the morning wandering around QE2 taking photos, but it was not to be. Deirdre asked me to accompany her to the hospital, so naturally I obliged. Kim is in a...

Feb 3, 2020 4 min read

DAY 4

DAY 4 Thursday, January 30th, 2020 A Queen of Another Era Ruth had arrived in Dubai several days ago, and had been very busy sight seeing in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I had not had much time to catch up with her news last...

Feb 2, 2020 7 min read

DAY 3

Wednesday January 29th, 2020 Dubai I woke up at 5:30 AM Los Angeles time, 5:30 PM Dubai time. We were 12,500 meters above Baghdad, going at a speed of Mach 0.83, with an outside temperature of - 60 degrees Celsius. There were...

Jan 29, 2020 2 min read

DAY 2

Tuesday January 28th, 2020 Happy 41st Anniversary to us I leave Queen Mary and head to Dubai When I woke up I noticed that the receipt for payment for my room was peeping out from under the door. As I went to check it for...

Jan 29, 2020 3 min read

DAY 1

Queen Mary Hotel, Long Beach, CA The first Queen She is a queen of a long gone era. The RMS Queen Mary sailed from 1936 to 1967, and at times during her career she was the largest ship afloat and the fastest ship. Together with her sister...

Jan 28, 2020 5 min read

The Itinerary

We chose this itinerary initially because we liked the way the voyage took us around Australia, and we could stop off at the ports along the way and spend time with our Australian friends and family. Well as luck would have it, having booked the...

Jan 23, 2020 4 min read

Prologue

In less than a week I will be comfortably on Queen Mary. No, not Queen Mary 2, she comes later, but the Queen Mary Hotel in Long Beach, CA. I couldn’t think of a more fitting place to stay for my layover in Los Angeles before I catch my plane to...

Jan 22, 2020 3 min read