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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #255 on: Oct 19, 2022, 09:45 PM »
Including this one, we will have six consecutive posts with paperwork / newsletters / whatever before the next photographs, so I will try to get through these in quick succession.

Tonight's post shows a leaflet which will probably have been one of the most collected on board:
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« Reply #256 on: Oct 20, 2022, 06:15 PM »
Ah, but we weren't technically in port - we were allowed up there for the actual sailing... ( which must be extremely rare on any ship, let alone on the Holy Grail of liners? ).
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #257 on: Oct 20, 2022, 08:01 PM »
Wonderful photos and remembrances, Peter ! Thanks again for sharing !
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« Reply #258 on: Oct 20, 2022, 11:30 PM »
Hi Peter -These are So Lovely
Have been waiting since 2008/9 to see them!!!!!!
Happy After Silver Wedding Anniversary too!

Thank you... but it's not our silver yet; that's another five years away.  :)
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #259 on: Oct 20, 2022, 11:32 PM »
We now move on to album volume 4 with this; an instruction sheet which not very many people will have received as only a handful of passengers left the cruise at Civitavecchia - and this being a maiden call, and us being the first off ( as we were in a hurry to get to Fiumicino airport ), meant we were the first people ever to leave QE2 at this port.
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #260 on: Oct 21, 2022, 10:20 PM »
The ship's newspaper again, our last before disembarking...
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #261 on: Oct 21, 2022, 11:37 PM »
The ship's newspaper again, our last before disembarking...
how were you feeling? And when did you think you'd be back on board?
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #262 on: Oct 21, 2022, 11:41 PM »
how were you feeling? And when did you think you'd be back on board?

I definitely thought we'd be back on board at some point, but a year later our daughter arrived, then three years after that our son.... then QE2 got withdrawn...
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #263 on: Oct 22, 2022, 01:14 PM »
I definitely thought we'd be back on board at some point, but a year later our daughter arrived, then three years after that our son.... then QE2 got withdrawn...
And have you ever thought of the new Cunard ships, and has this trip down memory lane made you think you might?  The cruise I had to cancel a few weeks ago even went to some of your honeymoon stops!
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #264 on: Oct 22, 2022, 08:17 PM »
And have you ever thought of the new Cunard ships, and has this trip down memory lane made you think you might?  The cruise I had to cancel a few weeks ago even went to some of your honeymoon stops!

I have, but at the moment the twin problems of money and time are putting it all aside... I'd certainly like to do QM2 just "because" and QV because of the comments from various people that the atmosphere is most like QE2 plus I also believe that's the one with a more traditional interior decor?
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #265 on: Oct 22, 2022, 08:20 PM »
This appeared in our cabin rather belatedly the night before we disembarked.  Just as well I had enough cash on me... I don't have a credit card anyway, just a debit card.
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #266 on: Oct 22, 2022, 10:32 PM »
This appeared in our cabin rather belatedly the night before we disembarked.  Just as well I had enough cash on me... I don't have a credit card anyway, just a debit card.

Very directly to the point! And as you say, rather belatedly.

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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #267 on: Oct 23, 2022, 04:57 PM »
Well, what do you know?  All of a sudden the system is now letting me do multiple attachments again, and I am now also able to use the like button again - several months after both those features stopped working.

That's actually rather timely because today we have the bill referred to in the letter from the Purser, and it's spread across two attachments:
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #268 on: Oct 24, 2022, 09:58 PM »
...and now we're back on pictures, so there will be a breather of a couple of days now.

Here is our final, early, breakfast on board at Civitavecchia and then waiting in prior to disembarking.
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Re: Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002
« Reply #269 on: Oct 28, 2022, 11:37 PM »
We have now transferred to Fiumicino from Civitavecchia by fast car; it's surprising how many drivers in Italy get out of the way quickly if they see a big black Mercedes gaining on them...  the transfer only took about half an hour!

Here we are in the lounge awaiting boarding.  We also see the tickets, although unfortunately a bit faded - probably thermal printing?

Delta and Alitalia were operating a code share on the route and our flight was one that was operated by Alitalia; we had a 767 registered I-DEIL - which is still in service today with Omni Air International, registered N378AX.
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