Blogs from Atlantic, Oceans and Seas - page 8

Hello as the Sapphire Princess sails north again, across the Bay of Biscay. When we were heading south early in the cruise, the wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. Today the temperature is about 75, the sky has been clear and sunny all day, and the sea is very smooth. We set the alarm today for 8:00 so we would get back into more normal hours and not sleeping too late. So we went to breakfast about 9:00 and got a buffet breakfast from the Horizon Court. We sat with a British couple and compared stories about Lisbon. After breakfast Janet went to the Knitter’s meeting in the Skywalker Lounge. There were only 4 knitters today and Janet only followed about half of what they were saying. But it was peaceful and refreshing. Meanwhile ... read more

Hello from somewhere in the Bay of Biscay. Last night we sailed down the English Channel and headed south toward Spain. The captain had them hustle along last night so we could have a smoother ride during the day. It wasn’t anything we haven’t experienced before, but Janet had difficulty getting her sea-legs back and didn’t sleep very well. But throughout the day she started feeling better. We clearly can feel more motion on this ship than the QM2, but this is back to what is more customary on an ocean voyage. In a couple of days we will be in the Mediterranean Sea and it may be calmer there. Because it was harder to sleep last night, we slept in later in the morning than we had planned. This was when Janet was still feeling ... read more

Hello again from the Queen Mary 2. Our crossing is rapidly coming to an end so it is disappointing that we had to start packing in preparation to disembark tomorrow. As such it has been a fairly quiet (not attending a lot of the organized activities) day for us. We got up and headed off to the dining room for a final leisure breakfast. Tomorrow will be a hectic job of getting out of the cabin and hauling our last few belongings through the buffet. So today we took our time and had a 3 course breakfast. First came the fruit juice, pastries, and fruit course. Then we had the meat and eggs (Janet had bacon and fried eggs while David had an omelet and kippers). The 3rd course was French Toast for Janet and Waffles ... read more

The way our bus approached the piers back on Sunday, and how the boarding process occurred, there was no good way to step back and take a picture of the whole ship – especially in the rain. David has cheated and has included a picture from the internet of the Queen Mary 2, just to show what our “ferry” looks like as we shuttle across to London. This morning we slept in for a while before going to the dining room for breakfast. We shared a table with some UK people who were on the return leg of their 14-day roundtrip. In their case, the journey is truly the vacation as opposed to being a mean of how to get to a destination. The other couple will be flying out from Southampton on a small plane ... read more

Hello from somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean. Since there are no specific landmarks for us to reference during this cruise, anyone who is interested can still get an idea where we are in the ocean by using the following URL: https://www.seascanner.com/ships-position-queen-mary-2 We got up this morning about 7:30 and went to the Britannia Restaurant. This is where we have our evening meal too. The dining room actually has two levels and we are seated on deck-2, but quite a few folks are up on deck-3 on the tiered balcony above us. But this is actually the lowest level of formal dining rooms on the ship. There are various other dining rooms reserved for passengers in larger and higher priced cabins. We are essentially the “steerage” on this crossing. Anyway, Janet as able to get Eggs ... read more