So very glad to have found this blog started by CGTNORMANDIE. Reading the entries brings back so many wonderful memories of the Bremen. I crossed on the Bremen, Bremen/New York, in 1970 having crossed from New York to Southampton the previous year on the QE2. I was transporting back to the US a recently purchased VW Beetle that was used to tour Europe and North Africa the previous 10 months.
Discovering the Bremen for the return trip was pure serendipity. The ship at first seemed like the elderly, but gracious, aunt compared to the QE2, but soon had warmly welcomed me with her charms, from the wonderful creaking of the wood panels as she made her way westward to the crew who treated me like family and daily hoping that the journey would last much longer than scheduled.
A high point of the journey was meeting a nun returning from Rome and becoming life-long friends. We actually closed down the wonderful Pine Room several evenings drinking, singing, dancing and becoming great friends. I remember quite clearly one of the stewards who in the wee hours did a fantastic impression of Marlene Dietrich singing Lili Marleen.
We also saved one of the wine bottles, put a note in it with our names and addresses, and tossed it overboard the next morning hoping to one day receive a reply, which never happened.
I also remember touring the engine room and taking a picture and when the flash attachment went off there was a small panic among the crew thinking it was an explosion!
I still have all the Bremen menus, brochures, daily news reports, etc. and occasionally run across them and remember fondly what a wonderful journey that crossing proved to be.
That was all in another, less stressful era and I cherish that it was truly kismet.
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Hi All,
So very glad to have found this blog started by CGTNORMANDIE. Reading the entries brings back so many wonderful memories of the Bremen. I crossed on the Bremen, Bremen/New York, in 1970 having crossed from New York to Southampton the previous year on the QE2. I was transporting back to the US a recently purchased VW Beetle that was used to tour Europe and North Africa the previous 10 months.
Discovering the Bremen for the return trip was pure serendipity. The ship at first seemed like the elderly, but gracious, aunt compared to the QE2, but soon had warmly welcomed me with her charms, from the wonderful creaking of the wood panels as she made her way westward to the crew who treated me like family and daily hoping that the journey would last much longer than scheduled.
A high point of the journey was meeting a nun returning from Rome and becoming life-long friends. We actually closed down the wonderful Pine Room several evenings drinking, singing, dancing and becoming great friends. I remember quite clearly one of the stewards who in the wee hours did a fantastic impression of Marlene Dietrich singing Lili Marleen.
We also saved one of the wine bottles, put a note in it with our names and addresses, and tossed it overboard the next morning hoping to one day receive a reply, which never happened.
I also remember touring the engine room and taking a picture and when the flash attachment went off there was a small panic among the crew thinking it was an explosion!
I still have all the Bremen menus, brochures, daily news reports, etc. and occasionally run across them and remember fondly what a wonderful journey that crossing proved to be.
That was all in another, less stressful era and I cherish that it was truly kismet.