Eleanor and I are now back in Sydney after three weeks away, sixteen nights on the QM2, one night in Singapore, three nights in Phuket and one night flying back home. The QM2 was an experience, with two and half thousand passengers and over one thousand crew it's got a population bigger than many country towns, but the only time we felt crowded was when we embarked in Sydney and disembarked in Singapore. It's a very big ocean liner, one lap around deck seven was about 600 metres. Even in heavy seas the QM2 is very stable, a no point did we feel sea sick and I didn't hear of any others on the ship getting sea sick. Eleanor and I were amongst the "young guns" on the ship, the average age was probably sixty plus
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