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Je Me Souviens: The Year the World Unfolded

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2011 World Cruise Adventure - 364 Days Around The World ⚓ 🚢 ⚓ 🧭 🚢 2011 World Cruise Adventure 364 Days - Once Around Without Leaving The Ground There is no doubt about it, the exhilarating state of mind that travel can evoke, when everything seems suddenly fresh, vivid, intensely interesting, and memorable. 0 Countries Visited Across 6 continents 0 Ports of Call Unique destinations 0 Days at Sea Complete world circuit 0 Blog Posts Stories shared ...

Southampton-Forever Cunard (2014)

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Cunard - 175 Years of Luxury Ocean Travel CUNARD The shortest bridge between New York and Europe. Experience 175 years of luxury ocean travel aboard the world's most prestigious fleet. 175 Years of Excellence 1 Only Scheduled Transatlantic Liner 3 Magnificent Queens Our Maritime Journey Three Queens, One Magnificent City A rare gathering of the entire Cunard fleet - Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria - representing nearly two ce...

2018 World Cruise Hong Kong to Southampton

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A Zen Sailor's Memoir · The Recurring Mentor · 2014–2018 Queen Mary 2: The Long Way Home Brooklyn. Hamburg. The Atlantic. Cape Town. Hong Kong. Southampton. The same ship kept returning, but the travelers boarding her were never quite the same. 2014 · First great crossing 2016 · Atlantic hat trick 2018 · World Cruise Voyage, not cruise See Full Image Show Story Prologue · A ship becomes a character Some vessels carry passengers. A few carry continuity. Queen Mary 2 kept appearing at the turning points: Brooklyn in 2014, another Atlantic crossing in 2016, Cape Town and Hong Kong in 2018. She was transportation, threshold and recurring mentor. The first time, the ship taught us the difference between speed and passage. The next time, she made the Atlantic feel less like empty water and more like a road we already knew. By the World Cruise, boarding her felt like returning to a moving country—one measured in decks, watch...

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