I must have given directions to at least four lots of tourists last night who were wandering around the Rocks area.
It’s a lovely looking ship. But it looks so much smaller than I recall. Now it’s dwarfed by all the newer, glitzier cruise ships.
I visited it in Hong Kong harbour many moons ago, and marvelled at its size. Then a few weeks later I saw the Canberra coming into port, and realised how comparitively small the QE2 actually is. And now there’s the QM2. Holy shit.
She’s a lovely ship all the same.
The QE2 is a BAD thing, 'cos it makes me feel old. I remember as a young Celyn my mother took me to see it being launched.
Call yourself old? I was dragged along to see the Britannia launched. 
What, you thin that’s old? I was hired to help supervise construction on the Titanic… because of my experience in building the Monitor!
On the QM2’s maiden visit to New York, I saw when both she and the QE2 departed together.
My two thoughts were how much the QE2 was dwarfed by the QM2, and that the QM2 looked like a cruise ship, but the QE2, that’s an ocean liner.
Hey, I was there too! I was standing in a pier in Hoboken with tons of other people, but it was so bitterly cold and windy that none of my pictures came out–even the newscasters couldn’t keep the wind out of their films. They’re both ocean liners, though, although the QM2 does look more like a cruise ship with all that superstructure.
I was also there a few days earlier, in much nicer weather, watching her come to NY for the first time. Again she had a fan club on a pier (this time on Christopher St.) I hope people can see my directory of pix!
I was thinking that too. I drove past it most days this week across the bridge. She’s looking like an old lady now, isn’t she? Stately, but aged.