exlondoner

Given that many of the chefs are from Asia, dishes from that area of the world may be especially stunning.

I have certainly seen splendid Indian banquets. And once a large table of Thais had a whole sucking pig for lunch. There was so much they gave us some, as we were looking on admiringly from a next door table. This must have been arranged before boarding, as I don’t imagine they have sucking pigs hanging around in the stores, just in case. Anyway, it is worth arranging such meals with plenty of notice.

From observation, not experience, it often seems to be the case that the earlier arrivals slow down a bit, unless they have a particular deadline, so that by coffee and petit fours they are all more our less synchronous.

Goodness, that is quite a lot of antagonism towards a simple request, which costs you nothing to answer. The other possibility is that they may like to have sight of those intending to self-disembark to make sure they seem physically capable. As we know from tender problems, some Cunard passengers can be over ambitious.

Perhaps I should suggest Cunard install a ski slope on the new ship for people in frocks of any sort to use?

Monks on skis, now there’s a thought.

They also conventionally have different epithets applied even when denoting the same object. I might refer to the same garment as a posh frock or a pretty dress, but not so much the other way round.

Yet many of the reviews claim QV is tired and dowdy looking.

Cabot Strait?

Of course they do. Equally, they probably want to avoid crushing and crowding in the Grand Lobby, and knowing what people are doing might help with this.

Why not?

See post above mine.

Why would Alex, whoever he is, be giving a talk during dinner?

Yes.

On our 2001 voyage, we had the old one. On our next trip in 2004, we had the new one, so some time in the intervening years. We were told by post, not on board.

Without a lot of burrowing, which I might have time to do later, I can’t be very precise, but my impression is that it was a long while ago, before, say, 2005.

Yes, and QE.

Presumably all the old UK numbers with nine digits but no letters must have been changed the same time ours were. I’m not sure where that leaves us.

How do you know the comparative ages of the UK numbers?

Our final characters are A and X. Naturally, I am X. I wonder who has the intervening 22 letters. Also, I noticed from my record that these are not our original CW numbers. At some point it was changed from a nine digit code. All most mysterious.

The shipping companies have very much overlapping clientele. Many seem to cruise with all three.

Doesn’t that just epitomise Cunard? I thought you were going to say ’after a few minutes’ but of course not, it was ‘after a few months’. Why we love them. 😀

Snappers. Our posts must have overlapped.

To complicate the issue, mine is AA99999A, so 8 characters in total!

The PG cabins on QM2 are very nice, square shaped, and half as big again as the Brit balconies.