Jul 31, 2016 | Wales 2015
the nice thing about disembarking from the Queen Mary is that it’s fast and efficient. we walked to our assigned place for disembarking…it was the Winter Garden again. Our scheduled departure was 9:50, but when we got that at 9:30, they started herding...
Jul 29, 2016 | Wales 2015
here’s the very last video! i can’t believe it’s the final one…by this time, i think i’d shot enough video of the Queen Mary 2 interior on our crossing to Southampton, plus other videos of other trips, so these are exclusively shots of...
Jul 28, 2016 | Wales 2015
Land ho! i staggered out onto our balcony at about 4:30 on friday morning to see us going back under the Verrazano Bridge, and this ship passed us. here we are, getting closer and closer. here’s a little bit about the history of the bridge, from a...
Jul 25, 2016 | Wales 2015
Wednesday was one more day of feeling crummy, but at least we were sick on the way home, not during the hiking and sightseeing part of our trip. it was the day of the talent show, and i’m sorry i missed it, because you just never know what kind of stuff...
Jul 24, 2016 | Wales 2015
amy’s birthday! i tried to call her a couple of times, but couldn’t reach her. even though i still wasn’t feeling so great, we got tickets to the planetarium show in the afternoon. we attended the morning lecture “secrets of the...
Jul 23, 2016 | Wales 2015
Ok, here’s the crazy thing – i have no photos of all of this day! that’s because i started getting sick. no fun. we did manage to do some stuff anyway. we went to an interesting talk by a gentleman named Michael Dispezio, which was called...
Jul 22, 2016 | Wales 2015
sunday morning we got up early again and started watching a fascinating documentary about Roger Ebert. It was still chilly outside, about 57 or so. one great thing about making the transatlantic crossing on the QM2 is that we gradually set the clocks forward, or...
Jul 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
well, i have been so desperate to finish posting my photos from our trip to wales before a year has passed, that i haven’t posted any of my many many photos i’ve taken during our somewhat eventful summer. but the reason i was doing such a bangup job of...
Jul 21, 2016 | Wales 2015
We got up early, and kevin brought me tea in bed. Nice! We went to the breakfast buffet at about 7:30, and because it was so early it wasn’t crowded at all. also nice. i loved that they had fresh figs. nobody was out walking, either. it was a cold and windy...
Jul 17, 2016 | Wales 2015
first full day of sailing! i got tickets for the planetarium show, and kevin and i decided to go to the astronomy lecture. at a little after ten in the morning, when i was going down in the elevator to get us another round of tea/coffee in the little area near the...
Jul 15, 2016 | Wales 2015
here’s a bit of video of the path in the New Forest, as well as setting sail from Southampton on the Queen Mary 2.
Jul 14, 2016 | Wales 2015
well, now it’s not wales at all anymore. we started out at the lovely Willows B&B in Ashurst, and enjoyed a delicious breakfast. it was a lovely dining room, and i wish i’d taken a wide shot of it. they do have a couple willows on the property....
Jul 13, 2016 | Wales 2015
Wednesday morning we got up and Carol made us a delicious breakfast, and then we headed for the other side of Southampton. I’d booked us a b&b in Ashhurst, at the edge of the New Forest. It was only a short drive from the b&b to the port, which...
Jul 12, 2016 | Wales 2015
it wasn’t actually unrecorded, but my photos of this day are simply missing. there’s a 20-picture gap between the last photo i took on monday night and the next photo that showed up, which is on wednesday afternoon. where could they have possibly gone?...
Jul 11, 2016 | Wales 2015
i only took a bit of video on our soggy hike because at first the camera wouldn’t focus, then i quickly realized that if i kept shooting, i’d probably break it. at least this gives you a little feel for the soggy adventure that was our hike on...
Jul 10, 2016 | Wales 2015
as i’ve already mentioned quite a bit, it was an exhausting day of hiking, and i wasn’t entirely on board with driving to tintern abbey, but i couldn’t be happier that we did. we were meeting charles at a place called the Abbey Mill Cafe, right next...
