Colin_Cameron

While we wait for a location for the Cunard Princess photo, here's another oldie. Ship and location please.

1 minute ago, carlmm said:

 

Let's try Cunard Princess in the Mediterranean or the Canaries.

Further thougths to follow.

Yes, Cunard Princess. And yes, the Med. So that gives you a start.

I wondered if someone might think it was Cunard Countess and start looking in the Caribbean.

Here's another oldie.

Getting the right part of the world should lead to the right ship. And getting the right ship should lead to the right part of the world.

11 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said:

I'm guessing Saguenay. But I'm having problems matching up the photo with Google maps.

Got it now. Actually La Baie.

1 hour ago, david,Mississauga said:

This photo doesn't give any clues, so I will follow it with two more that might be helpful.

I'm guessing Saguenay. But I'm having problems matching up the photo with Google maps.

3 hours ago, carlmm said:

 

Is it the original Queen Elizabeth?

Yes ...

3 hours ago, BigMac1953 said:

 

Looks like the River Clyde. Greenock/Port Glasgow?

 

... and Yes. (Let's face it. If you didn't get that one there was something wrong.)

This wasn't the photo that I was looking for but never mind. It's a little older than the others.

Ship and port please.

15 minutes ago, sfred said:

St. Maarten?  Looks somewhat Caribbean, and also Dutch with the windmill.

That was my first thought as well, the windmill and what looks like the Netherlands Antilles courtesy flag on QM2. But that hill is wrong. (unless there's a new pier since I was there)

Does anyone else have someone in their life that just makes them feel totally inadequate?

Yesterday I cut the grass, and today the plan was to make a start on our leylandii hedge. But it was raining so I had a lazy day.

Tonight I called my dad, who’s 90, to see what he did today. While he was out of lockdown we managed two, socially distanced visits and he assured me there were no jobs needing done. He’s now back in lockdown again. 

This morning he decided to fix the leaky guttering at the back of the house! Having removed a couple of lengths of cast iron gutter to clean and redo the joints he discovered that the real problem was a blocked down pipe.  Drain rods and a pressure washer with a drain cleaning attachment soon had that unblocked.

After lunch he decided to do something about the sticking doors on the garage. The problem is the garage is starting to lean to one side (timber frame). So he removed the doors, set a couple of ground anchors, and with a couple of heavy-duty ratchet straps, winched the frame straight again. Fixed some cross bracing, and job done. Except the doors no longer fit. He made new doors last year, but of course they were made to fit a slightly mis-shapen frame. He’s managed to remake one of them but will leave the other one till tomorrow.  “Well, you wouldn’t want to have nothing to do tomorrow. Would you?“

When I asked why he sounded different tonight it turns out that he’s lying on his back in the crawl space below the floor trying to fix the wiring to an outside socket that has died. But he knew that I’d call so he took the cordless house phone with him.

I guess I’ve got no excuse to put the hedge off for another day. Have I.

1 hour ago, carlmm said:

Let's try one of mine.

 

 

Horta? In the Azores?

43 minutes ago, sogne said:

Oslo taken from top of Homekollen Ski Lift

 

this is a departure from a very popular port many will have been to but a most unusual departure route past the city airport runways. Tide and weather conditions have to be just right. Usually the route is much longer  to the next port.As it was  part of a special occasion many of you may have been onboard. The next port was cancelled for unexplained reasons but the cruise ended in  a memorable  fashion with our last port call.

 

 

Looks like Copenhagen?

29 minutes ago, Lanky Lad said:

I think that is Malaga

Agreed.

18 minutes ago, Lanky Lad said:

This was taken from QE2 on a sail past as part of a round Britain trip.

I have a funny feeling I was standing beside you when you took this. So I'll leave this one.

1 hour ago, bluemarble said:

Here's my contribution for today. Two photos from the same port. This is one of those cases where the port is located outside the main city center (about 2.5 - 3 miles out in this case), so there isn't much of the city itself to see here. But give it a try without any further hints at this time.

 

 

Reykjavik. Wouldn't have got it from the second photo but it confirmed my thoughts about the first.

4 hours ago, Host Hattie said:

I don't think this one needs an extra clue yet, it's an evening departure.

 

Looks like Cadiz.

7 hours ago, cruzingnut said:

 Maybe someone will save some video?

https://transport-scotland.panomax.com/forth

You can use the 'time' at the bottom of the screen to step back (or forwards) 10 minutes at a time, or the 'archive' to jump further. I found our Balmoral sailaway last year.

Unfortunately it's only a still picture every ten minutes, and a ship can sail a long way in that time.

8 hours ago, Ray66 said:

 

If you look very closely you may see me just below the bridge.

I have worked in broadcasting. But not where my name would be known.

Thank You parties for the crew used to be quite common. I’ve known them on both Vistafjord and Royal Viking Sun, and obviously heard of them on QE2. Wish I could remember the entertainer who used to do multiple crew shows as well as his scheduled passenger performances.

We first met them onboard Vistafjord, where they had taken both penthouse suites. Because, "I'm an ex-smoker. And he isn't."

Part of the reason for wanting a suite at the front of the ship rather than the stern was that in those pre-wifi (or even internet at sea) days it was only possible for him to run a telex by having Cunard run a cable from their suite directly to the radio room.

2 hours ago, Britboys said:

... they would have to replace all the signs on each deck in cabin corridors and all the ship 'maps' that are on the walls in all the lift/stairwell lobbies too. ...

Again, I don't know. But I would be surprised if they don't also include the ship's name, or the cruise line name, or a logo of some sort, so will be getting changed anyway.

1 hour ago, Host Hattie said:

Not a Canary Island this time

I'm thinking Madeira, but cant work out where it was taken from.

On 8/28/2020 at 9:53 PM, JMyrtle said:

I thought they would be keeping the cabin numbers otherwise as you say it would mean replacing them all on the cabin doors

I've not sailed on HAL so I don't know, but on a number of lines the cabin number is incorporated into those envelope/daily programme holders. Which usually include some form of ship or company logo.

So they may have to be replaced anyway. And if you're going to replace them, it's no more difficult to change the numbers.

Having sailed in one particular cabin six times, we came home from the final voyage of the ship before it was sold with the cabin number (Now on our bedroom door).  The 'number' didn't get changed, but had to be replaced because of the company logo.

1 hour ago, exlondoner said:

 

I suppose he's going to,say it was lilac or duck egg blue or some such.😀

Close.

Apparently it was made on a very tight budget and the studio couldn’t resist a deal on a truckload of canary yellow tuxedos that they were assured would look white on (black and white) film.

1 hour ago, exlondoner said:

I'm devastated. I so much prefer the Hollywood version.

13 minutes ago, Host Hattie said:

My favourite film

10 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

And mine.

Believe it or not I'd never actually watched the whole film (I'd seen most of it in bits and pieces) until we stopped there on Vistafjord's final voyage in 1999 and they showed the film on board. They had someone who'd worked on the film as a speaker. So here's an interesting trivia question for all you experts. What colour was Rick's tuxedo?

14 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

 

That's correct. If you check the "Domestic Routes" on that ferry line's online schedules, all will be revealed.

I've not done so, but it looks like Mykonos.