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Happy Birthday to the World's Greatest Liner
Chris
[ 04-29-2005: Message edited by: Chris Cunard ]
quote:Originally posted by Malcolm @ cruisepage:Sorry to rain on your parade folks, but I'm totally convinced that it will be announced this weekend that the QE2 will be withdrawn from service on May 3rd.
TROUBLE MAKER
*deep breaths Chris, it'll be okay*
Regards Dan
*Well its ok to day dream sometimes
The QE2 is such a beautiful Ocean Liner and I vary much have been desperate to sail on her. You are all too luck to be able to sail aboard such a fantastic Ocean Liner.
I am too young . . . and have never traveld aboard a true Ocean Liner and probably never will (sure the QE2 is an ocean Liner but it is still not the same) . . . to travel aboard the NORWAY would be an honar . . . but that honar cannot be so . . . I go to the RMS Queen Mary alot. And it never seems to get old . . . and that is because I have never sailed on her and experianced the true Liner feeling . . . I keep going to her, hoping to full-fill my wantings . . . but there is still an emptyness everytime I go to the ship . . . and that emptyness I am sad to say cannot be full-filled for the Queen Mary is not to sail again . . . so my dream is never to be accomplished . . . I am sad to say . . . but it is true . . . . . . . .
To make you all (and me) more happy, I do have some good information . . . It is so cool that alot of Ocean Liners were built or some big event happend in May, the month of my birthday (my birtday is 5/30/91). I mean the QE2 was born (as I call it) on 2 May 1967. The Queen Mary (which I am the #1 fan of [thats right #1 fan]) was born on the 27 May 1936 which is only three days before my birthday. And (although this is sad) The Lusitania sunk on the 7 May 1915.
Hail to the Queen Elizabeth 2
Jochenwww.jgadv.tk
quote:Originally posted by Cruise Lover: I am too young . . . and have never traveld aboard a true Ocean Liner and probably never will..
Welcome aboard cruise lover.
Yes many of us are very lucky to have travelled on some great ships. However, even us ‘oldies’ probably regret that we too were unable to travel on certain ships, in my case the Normandie or the SS United States, for example.
However, you are very lucky to have visited the Queen Mary, she is breathtaking, even if she is stationery. Although there will not be too many ‘Ocean Liners’ around in ten years time, there will still be the magnificent QM2 of course.
Let us not forget that we are living in the most exciting time of ‘cruise ship development’. There will always be some great ships, even if they are not ‘liners’, as such. Remember even today’s mediocre looking vessels will probably be considered ‘classics’ by the time you are 35.
You are very young and have tons of time. I was sixteen when I forced my family to go in the cheapest cabin on the QE2 and luckily for me everyone loved it.
155 cruises later I still remember my very first cruise - if you care that much about ships, you will go honestly. Just be patient!
Mike
quote:Originally posted by cruiseshipluver:the closest i got to Qe2... was next to her to touch her hulll...........nice to feel the old lady through you cruiseshipluver
As she is much, much more beautiful from the outside, than from the inside, this is fine.
quote:Originally posted by mec1:Cruise Lover -You are very young and have tons of time. I was sixteen when I forced my family to go in the cheapest cabin on the QE2 and luckily for me everyone loved it.Mike
You are very young and have tons of time. I was sixteen when I forced my family to go in the cheapest cabin on the QE2 and luckily for me everyone loved it.Mike
You forced you family to go on the QE2??! How the hell did you manage that?I was lucky if I could ever force my tight lot to get on the Isle of Wight (where we lived) ferry.
I'm itching for a trip and more than a trip on a dull, boring old cross Channel ferry (YAWN!). Unfortunately I still have no job...
I have been aboard the QE2 though - I spent a day on her in December 1992 as I knew the then Hotel Manager.
quote:Originally posted by Chris Cunard:Cruise love - I was 11 when I first set foot on QE2 - you are never too young to start
(the reson why I quote hear is becouse the posts the second page do not seem to be of this topic)
What you all have to say to me makes me less sad about my not being able to go aboard the great ocean liners of soooo long ago. And I thank you all for doing that for me.
I gess I am quite lucky to live (pretty much) right near the original Queen Mary . . . for even though the ship is not to sail again, I still have a chance to walk the decks of a great Ocean Liner that ones did sail.
Just like Pasty, the reson why I cant go on the QE2 is because of lack of money. I would go on a 34 day cruise on her if I could. Im just afraid the ship will go out of busness before I do get enough money to go on her.
(I heard the ship is going out of busness in 2010 [the year the United States is coming back into busness], is this true ?)
So I guess I am lucky to go on the Queen Mary. And I guess I do have a whole new generation of ships (even if they are plastic) that will (possibly) be 'classics' when I am older . . . . but the future is still uncirtain . . . right now all we can do is keep the true age of Ocean Liners alive . . . and dream beautiful dreams . . . . . . . . . .
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