Cunard Cruisers - How are things where you are ?

[NE John]

4 hours ago, roscoe39 said:

Gallipoli

Good early Mel Gibson movie too. 

[Lanky Lad]

A quick hello from on board Queen Victoria. Boarding was smooth as usual. A bit of a surprise was that we had an old fashioned muster drill at 4pm. The video on TV still says to go to be scanned on so not updated yet. 

[Host Hattie]

Have a great trip  @Lanky Lad

[D&N]

The breeding pair from our nearest river appeared this morning with six cygnets.

There is a group of folk that keep an eye on them, and in one of the pics you see daddy telling a woman to get the food out of her backpack and throw it to his hungry kids. She obliged a minute or so later.

I've included a FB link to someone else's much better close up of mum and babies than I got with my phone from the bridge above.

This group usually survive until adults. The pair in the next river along the coast have an issue where their nest is overlooked by seven floor flats, and gulls swoop down and attack the young. Hopefully their support group will prevent that in future following a loss of about half their chicks a few years ago.

 

 

 

[buchanan101]

Out in Cambridge on a glorious spring morning before the tourist hordes arrive. Tourists eh… wouldn’t catch me being one… oh…

[Host Hattie]

This was my evening yesterday 

 

[alc13]

WHAT!!!!!

 

I bet it was amazing.  Bruuuuuuuuce.......

[Host Hattie]

It was ... I've seen him a few times but this was one of the best. 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

On 5/6/2024 at 8:27 PM, Host Hattie said:

This was my evening yesterday 

 

Must be Queen Anne, the other theatres are smaller than that

[D&N]

Lunch today. Not quite Cunard standard!

 

[D&N]

Dinner was very tasty. Start of a short break in Rome. Other nights will probably be a bit more refined but these Pinsas were lovely.

 

[Bigmike911]

On 5/16/2024 at 2:52 PM, D&N said:

Dinner was very tasty. Start of a short break in Rome. Other nights will probably be a bit more refined but these Pinsas were lovely.

 

You whet my appetite, I will take two.

[D&N]

We were not in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum today!

 

[Bigmike911]

It's Memorial Day in the U.S. The day set aside to remember those who gave all for us in the US Military from the U.S. Civil War until today.

 

There will be a laying of a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery as well as parades and celebrations across the land. It is very much like Remembrance Sunday in the UK, but since it began before WWI it is held in May instead of November. 

 

I want to thank all who served, including those of our Allies some of whom gave their all.

 

It is also the Late May Bank Holiday in the U.K., so there is celebration on both sides of the "pond".