Sunday, February 19, 2012

The QEII leaves Auckland, New Zealand

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The beautiful luxury cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 departs Auckland. The View from David MacGregor's downtown apartment. Shot on an iPhone ...

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Cruise holidays: John Craven visits Thousand Islands, the archipelago that ... - Daily Mail

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Cruise holidays: John Craven visits Thousand Islands, the archipelago that ...
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On a cruise up the St Lawrence River, I discovered the name wasn't dreamt up by some advertising whizzkid. As our boat approached Lake Ontario, where the wide river forms the border between Canada and the United States, the islands began to appear.

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Floating palace in the Persian Gulf - Manchester Evening News

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Floating palace in the Persian Gulf
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We had arrived in the Middle East for our very first cruise and we had not really known what to expect. The sight of the Brilliance of the Seas, almost ready to set sail was amazing. This Royal Caribbean cruise liner is classed as a medium size ship ...

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Mary begins maiden tour around Australia - BigPond News

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Mary begins maiden tour around Australia
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Queen Mary 2 is the largest ocean liner to visit Australia and arrived in Fremantle on Wednesday to begin her maiden circumnavigation around the country. Arriving from South Africa, the 151400-tonne Cunard ship berthed at Fremantle's cruise terminal in ...

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Mary begins maiden tour - Adelaide Now

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Mary begins maiden tour
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Queen Mary 2 is the largest ocean liner to visit Australia and arrived in Fremantle on Wednesday to begin her maiden circumnavigation around the country. Arriving from South Africa, the 151400-tonne Cunard ship berthed at Fremantle's cruise terminal in ...

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Mary begins maiden tour around Australia - Yahoo!7 News

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Mary begins maiden tour around Australia
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Queen Mary 2 is the largest ocean liner to visit Australia and arrived in Fremantle on Wednesday to begin her maiden circumnavigation around the country. Arriving from South Africa, the 151400-tonne Cunard ship berthed at Fremantle's cruise terminal in ...

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She's a beauty - QM2 arrives in Fremantle - inmycommunity

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She's a beauty - QM2 arrives in Fremantle
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By Amy Hallett, Western Suburbs Weekly Irene Hall and Joan Orrum were among those to greet what is arguably the world's most prestigious cruise ship. It is the third time the 151400 tonne liner, which boasts 10 restaurants, five pools, a planetarium, ...

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Fine liner - Newsport Daily

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Fine liner
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The massive Diamond Princess cruise liner arrives in Port Douglas today. Here are some facts you may not know about this floating city. The Diamond Princess took three million man-hours to build. During the construction, 281000 litres of paint were ...

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Bar Harbor Struggles with Cruise Ships - Working Waterfront

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Bar Harbor Struggles with Cruise Ships
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by Lee Wilbur Several times while interviewing residents of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island regarding the burgeoning cruise ship visitation in Bar Harbor, I heard the expression “Progress is good” and then the proviso would follow, “I guess.

Monday, January 30, 2012

3000 miles on the high seas - an Atlantic crossing by cruise ship - Travel Agent

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3000 miles on the high seas - an Atlantic crossing by cruise ship
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The trans-Atlantic liner par excellence was the "RMS Queen Elizabeth 2" operated by the British shipping company Cunard Line. More than 2.5 million passengers travelled on the QE2 in the 41 years after its 1967 launch. The ship made 805 Atlantic ...

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3000 miles on the high seas - an Atlantic crossing by cruise ship - Monsters and Critics.com

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3000 miles on the high seas - an Atlantic crossing by cruise ship
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The trans-Atlantic liner par excellence was the 'RMS Queen Elizabeth 2' operated by the British shipping company Cunard Line. More than 2.5 million passengers travelled on the QE2 in the 41 years after its 1967 launch. The ship made 805 Atlantic ...

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Crewman quizzed over child abuse complaints - gulfnews.com

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Crewman quizzed over child abuse complaints
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Cunard (part of the Carnival cruise company that owns the sunken Italian ship Costa Concordia) has also asked the children's charity, the NSPCC, to speak to worried parents who may require counselling and advice. Nobody has been arrested or charged ...

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

No cruise vacations for me - Toronto Sun

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No cruise vacations for me
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The Concordia wasn't an ocean liner but a mega ship — a giant box designed to float around on shallow seas, and crammed with more passengers and crew than the Titanic's builders could have imagined. Loaded with restaurants, bars, pools, ...

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Friday, January 20, 2012

No more cruise ship vacations for me - London Free Press

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No more cruise ship vacations for me
London Free Press
The Concordia wasn't an ocean liner but a mega-ship — a giant box designed to float around on shallow seas, and crammed with more passengers and crew than the Titanic's builders could have imagined. Loaded with restaurants, bars, pools, ...

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

QE2 on her last ever Atlantic crossing

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September 2008, the QE2 makes her final ever crossing of the Atlantic ocean in tandem with Queen Mary 2, before sailing for Dubai to become a ...

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