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  1. They mainly use Ligier electric vehicles here for post. I haven't seen the 4 wheelers around here for a while. it's mostly these trikes. La Poste's parcel folk usually have electric Renault Kangoos.
  2. Sadly we had Carmel euthanised yesterday morning. She'd suffered various respiratory problems from end of July on top of her long term treatment for heart and kidney condition. She stopped eating last week and her vet thinks her kidneys failed. Her last photo taken Friday evening. She seemed reasonably happy for Ursel to have most of her bed.
  3. On June 5th 2022 we were in a starboard cabin. QM2 turns round before berthing. I took my first photo of the statue at 3:55am in darkness. The one taken at 6am was somewhat better. I've since realised that the sensors in both the phone and zoom camera I had with me are too small to get decent images in low light. There was also quite a bit of vibration with the bow thrusters being used to manoeuvre.
  4. With embedded photos!! I should add that I'm looking for a suitable wardrobe/outfit planning app. Haven't found one that is better than Excel or Outlook Calendar yet.
  5. I have to admit to being ill mannered from time to time. I have very little hair and for much of the year I need to protect my bald head from sunburn. We often walk to the shops and I need both hands to deal with the trolley and scanning items. It's more practical to keep my hat on.
  6. No, she'll take 14 outfits for evenings and wear each on the evening planned. She'll also have 12 day time/lunch outfits, which she might be slightly more flexible with. She'll probably take something slightly more casual for Lobster Mac and Cheese at The Red Hook Lobster Pound.
  7. I carried out internet searches many months ago on what gentlemen might have worn to balls and gala evenings in the 1920s. It would appear that attire was much the same then as now. That would be a dinner suit (tux). They would have been unlikely to wear a double breasted pin-striped suit & Fedora. That appears to be a fancy dress interpretation taken from what gangsters are reputed to have worn in the same era. My wife has picked the 14 outfits she likes best for the 14 nights for our next trip. They might change of course as the next one is a while away. They will range from gowns to mini cocktail dresses. The gowns are never floor sweeping though as they need to be short enough for her to dance safely in 3" heels. We will have masquerade masks but they are mainly for some of the photographs.
  8. We had 14 nights in a Club cabin on QM2 in June 2022. Going by online photos there is no real difference from Britannia Balcony cabins. Currently those on deck 13 have a better bathroom with shower screen rather than curtain. we don't know if that will change next month during the dry docking. We liked the BC port side restaurant. We were happy having the same table for all meals whenever we chose to eat (within opening hours), We used the "A La Carte" menu when nothing enthused us on the regular Britannia menu. The restaurant and cabin locations suited us for our onboard activities. We mainly use Chart Room, Queens Room, G32, Pavilion Pool and Gym. We'll be in the same cabin next time.
  9. The roar of jets taking off was what I missed most here during lockdowns. I was happy not to have the rasping exhausts from cars and motor bikes, but jet roar is a low level sound and told me that we were still in contact with the rest of the world. I'm more than happy to hear them at any time of day or night!
  10. No! Not until breakfast. Just kid on your an old Cunard cruiser with real stamina!
  11. OP wrote "get off the ship in the UK and drive to France". I would hope that means a one way rental or a car with driver. Assuming the regs do allow such a routing between USA and France they should have means of showing disembarkation at Southampton about 3 hours prior to checking in for Eurotunnel, and clearing all formalities at Folkestone. I'll try and read them if I get a chance.
  12. @j404dzb I've not read the uk gov advice recently. We brought our cats to France before the Brexit vote. But from a practical point of view would suggest you all the documentation to prove that you have made a single trip, albeit multi-modal. Perhaps daily pictures of you and your dog during the trip. The photos will have a digital time stamp to back up your documentation. Back in 2016 the folk who checked us at Eurotunnel Folkestone were more interested in whether we had paid for two cats and weren't sneaking any more through than paid for. They weren't interested in their pet passports.
  13. At some point I wrote that I found the bread rolls boring. I wasn't suggesting for a minute that Cunard should improve their roll offering. I wouldn't choose a cruise line on the basis of what the rolls were like. Just that the bread we buy here tastes so different from what we've tasted anywhere else. We eat something a bit less flavoursome on a daily basis, but this comes from a local artisan bakery. As with all the bread we eat here they don't add anything to preserve it so you need to eat it on day of purchase or slice and freeze it as we do.
  14. We're at home. You'll be over 30 miles away. We can see ships lights up to about 10 miles if it's clear.
  15. I think I own some polos. Can't remember when I last wore one. None of them had breast pockets so when I got my first smart phone I stopped wearing them. BTW you'll be sailing past us in the next hour or so, but a wee bit beyond the horizon.
  16. Looks like it increased to $21 in May last year. Next time we'll take a ferry trip to Bay Ridge and back to get some close ups of QM2. Then walk to The Red Hook Lobster Pound for lunch and return to re-board.
  17. A 15 second search! Well it was actually the second search with "pdf" in it. I knew I'd looked at it for another reason recently.
  18. I suppose they don't want to schedule two in a row. Originating from Scotland; we would attend an evening party/dancing dinner event running through all evening and into the early hours, then having recovered would have a formal meal at home in the early evening of New Years Day. The French aren't so big on parties. St Sylvestre is a multi course feast at a local restaurant from about 8pm to 1am, followed by meal at home on 1st. We'll dress to the nines for both as usual.
  19. @watsonbeau I think this is quite recent. Cruises mentioned in the T&Cs look like 2023-2025. Perhaps some prices have changed and they've temporarily withdrawn it from main site. Although looking at the URL it's from their Australian pages. But prices are in USD. https://s0.whitepages.com.au/737f82ce-e212-4a48-9362-b0c81b23bc97/cunard-document.pdf
  20. Hello, another visitor from the Cunard boards.... Glad you seem to be enjoying it so far. Do you mean folk were wearing tux suits and bow ties to board or just jackets and ties, as some do in Europe? What's the 755 & 822 about? Is it serving times?
  21. I posted some from June 2022 back in April. I think I've seen others posted for slightly more recent crossings, but haven't found them. There are links to some from a recent post on a QM2 sailing to Canada, which might be a bit different from a crossing. Which June 2025 Westbound are you sailing on? We sail on June 6th returning on 13th.
  22. D&N

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    We live in France. We use an agent in the English Midlands. We've never met. We communicate mainly be email and by phone when it comes to booking/paying or if there's a problem. We do know lots about them as they were recommended by a friend that was a prolific cruiser and I follow their Facebook and Instagram pages. There appear to be some good US based agents based on the wet luggage thread.
  23. I just started Roll Calls for M514 & M515. We're doing M514A but guidance suggests keeping them separate, although it's not essential.
  24. But then most of the 120,000 I'm talking about were driving buses, trains and trams or supervising those that were doing so. A very small percentage were in back office jobs.
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