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Queen Mary 2 - "The Incredible Hulk"
CupCaked wrote:
"Did ever maiden wake From dream of homely duty, To find her daylight break With such exceeding beauty?" Mabel, in "The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert & Sullivan Didn’t Goethe say something about good architecture being like good music? If that is indeed true ... and I think it is ... this ship sings! Yes, I loved the ship. We couldn’t make the maiden voyage of this new Cunarder in January, but the tandem transatlantic crossing certainly made up for it and allowed me to become acquainted with my new Best Friend. Yes, I loved the ship. The goose-bump producing send-off in New York on April 25th, the fireworks, even the ever-present police presence, all led to a heightened sense of excitement. The two Queens in the Hudson River on their way out to do a crossing together, and later, the sure and steady QE2 always at our side, was something I probably won’t see again in my lifetime. Karen! Memorable, awe-inspiring, and historical, the attention around the ship. The NYC "welcoming committee" and sendoff to the great QE2. I kept pinching myself. The Queen Mary 2 AND the Queen Elizabeth 2: a ship lover’s dream comes true. All I needed now was to conjure up the image of the late, great Normandie out there with us or at her berth in New York, waiting to sail, and my vision would be complete. Throw in Rotterdam V, and I’d be in ocean liner heaven. Beautiful dream, indeed. This review will be somewhat different from what I usually write. There has been so much written and posted online about this ship that it would be redundant for me to post photos and tell you how big, how tall and how much the QM2 weighs. All of that information is out there already. The super-stats have been beaten to death. Instead, I’ll try to give you impressions of my trip, what I thought of the ship, the maiden eastbound voyage and being a part of the tandem crossing of the QE2 and the QM2. And I’m happy to report that I’ll do it all in just one installment. Somehow, it isn't so important about this ship. This is some sort of symbol of desire and a type of conveyance of a lifestyle. Karen, I was very moved by the sendoff of the Queens, and if you look at some earlier posts you may see my account of it. I was very impressed with how much excitement this ship caused. That you feel it lives up to its liner classification and that you love it is sweet frosting on the cake. Ben (feeling unusally giddy) And this ship is all it is touted to be, an ocean liner and NOT a cruise ship. It should be interesting to watch her ocean-going career unfold and see what Cunard/Carnival Corp. has in store for her in the years to come. Karen Segboer __ /7__/7__/7__ \::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.cupcaked.com/reviews (...and leave off the "potatoes" to e-mail) |
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