by The Inside Cabin | Sep 1, 2016 | 2016 Queen Mary 2 Crossing, Southampton, Europe, Great Britain
The Queen Mary 2 moored starboard side at berth 46 on the Ocean Cruise Terminal in Southampton around 6:30 am. All of the guests, except the 500 of us remaining on to NYC, would be departing in Southampton. The QM2, like Princess, but unlike HAL, doesn’t make...
by The Inside Cabin | Aug 30, 2016 | Europe, 2016 Queen Mary 2 Crossing, Hamburg, Germany
We are headed off on our first cruise or I should say voyage on Cunard Lines and the Queen Mary 2 which will be a Westbound “Crossing” from Hamburg, Germany, to New York City. Having cruised extensively on Holland America and Princess (with a few cruises on NCL, X,...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 22, 2016 | Funchal (Madeira), 2016 Grand World Voyage, Europe, Portugal
We arrived alongside the pier in Funchal around 6:30 am while it was still dark. Looking down on the pier, it looked as if it there might be a light drizzle as the ground was wet, but it was hard to tell if rain was still failing. If it was, it was very light. Funchal...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 21, 2016 | 2016 Grand World Voyage, Europe, Sea Day
As we continue our journey west we are now in the North Atlantic Ocean and no longer in the relative shelter of the Mediterranean Sea. This morning was cooler than we have experienced in some time and there is noticeable deck motion once again as we are subject to the...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 20, 2016 | 2016 Grand World Voyage, Europe, Spain, Cadiz (Seville)
We were cleared to go ashore in Cadiz around 7am with an all aboard of 4:30. We moored starboard side once again and while we didn’t have a view of the city, we did a have a view of another cruise ship the MSC Splendida. As we were eating our room service breakfast we...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 18, 2016 | 2016 Grand World Voyage, Europe, Spain, Barcelona
Barcelona is a huge city that was home to the 1992 Olympics. I was last here in 1983 so I don’t recall much about how it looked then as compared to now, but we were told that the waterfront was transformed for the Olympics from a gritty working port to the pretty...
