Queen Elizabeth

Bob on December 3rd, 2010

For the only other real “royal wedding” in our lifetime, Mother and Daughter were up before dawn, Eastern time, to watch stodgy Prince Charles marry pretty Princess Diana. That was 1981. Mother and Daughter were so enamored with the event that they took pictures. Remember now, it was on television…and they took pictures. In case [...]

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Bob & Nancy on September 2nd, 2010

Could there have been a better script written for the arrival of Cunard’s new ship, the simply-named Queen Elizabeth? The Queen herself will preside over the naming ceremony next month in Southampton, England’s cruising hub. People more knowledgeable than we are believed all along that this was an inevitable match for the “naming ceremony” so [...]

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Bob & Nancy on August 27th, 2010

We’re always looking for reason — some might say excuse — to go to New York. Isn’t everyone? One slipped into our email box this week from Cunard. It’s the Royal Reunion. This isn’t Cunard’s first such assembly of its ships, but it’s the first one to include the Queen Elizabeth, the new ship (below) [...]

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Bob & Nancy on July 7th, 2010

When we were kids, there was a movie called “Around The World in 80 Days” that was as SciFi to us as Star Trek is today because, frankly, it wasn’t ever going to happen. The movie included 41 stars, was based on a book of the same name by Jules Verne and was called an [...]

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