July 10th, 2018 Yes, Still all at Sea We still have blue skies, and blue ocean, with a few white horses, but no motion on the ship. To start the morning, John MacLean talked about aliens – “Hello? Is there Anybody Out There?” It turns out that there probably isn’t…
July 9th, 2018 Very Definitely Still at Sea The Day I Touched the Moon The first thing I did this morning was visit the Voyage Sales office and get the price for the July 2019 QM2 Iceland Crossing. You can do this as a round trip from New York, which would be…
July 8th, 2018 Still at Sea I had another amazingly good night’s sleep. My cabin continues to be very quiet, and the lack of a window really isn’t a problem at all. The only issues are that there is no cell phone reception, or internet service. I solved the problem…
July 7th At Sea The thing about blogging about a crossing is that except the first and last days, every day is a sea day. This could get boring! I was worried about the position of my cabin as it is between a crew area and the lifts. I though it would be noisy. Maybe…
July 6th, 2018 Brooklyn and Beyond I landed at JFK airport at 6:00 AM in the middle of a thunderstorm. My beautiful red suitcase was waiting for me on the carousel, and I was ready to find my ship. My first Cunard experience was in 1962 when my parents and I sailed…
This is actually not part of the Fjording blog. Due to my inability, despite help from Adam, computer geek extraordinaire, to insert a new page into my blog with the slow speed of the internet on Queen Mary 2, I cannot post under my intended title: Queen Mary 2…
June 24 En Route to California Ruth had awoken at 4:30, and being unable to get back to sleep again, she set off to explore the ship in the early morning light. She said it was fairly deserted, but there were a few other hardy souls out on deck, also enjoying the…
June 23rd At Sea Not Fjording Usually sea days are relaxing. Not so much this one. I decided to go to the Commodore Club for a short time to read, and missed Derek Tedder’s talk on “Trust me, I’m a journalist”. I sat in the Commodore Club musing over how much…
June 22nd Stavanger Yay, fjords again! What better place to be but northern Norway to experience the longest day of the year. We went out on deck in the early hours of the morning, and it was still light. It was magical. I know that this region gets long, harsh…
June 21st Flam Finally Fjording in Flam We were awoken this morning by the sun streaming into the cabin for a brief moment before it disappeared behind what seemed to be a mountain outside our cabin. Yay – we were finally in the fjords, and the view was breathtaking….
June 20th Not in Alesund It was still light, and the ship continued to rock and roll when I went to bed at 1:30. I was looking forward to a nice night of being rocked in bed, but I fell into a deep slumber, and when I awoke this morning there was very little movement…
June 19th Bergen Isn’t it good, Norwegian Wood We were awoken at about 4 this morning because the wind was making quite a racket whistling through our balcony door, and the ship had definitely developed a definite rocking motion. However, by the…
