Rare rafinmd Posted August 31, 2023 #4276 Share Posted August 31, 2023 I have a sunset today rather than a sunrise. It's from my 2016 Crystal Serenity Northwest Passage cruise and August 31 was probably one of the first days that the sun set before my bed time. It was a sea day from Cambridge Bay to Pond Inlet. Roy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 1, 2023 #4277 Share Posted September 1, 2023 always enjoy this view. I've used it in my blogs and this one is a newer photo taken last month while visiting Portofino, Italy. Keith 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Luxury Posted September 1, 2023 #4278 Share Posted September 1, 2023 5 hours ago, Keith1010 said: always enjoy this view. I've used it in my blogs and this one is a newer photo taken last month while visiting Portofino, Italy. Keith I'll be there tomorrow. Lunch at the Splendido Hotel. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted September 1, 2023 #4279 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Another sunrise from my 2012 Queen Mary 2 transatlantic to Southampton. On September 1 we were near the midpoint of the crossing. Roy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 2, 2023 #4280 Share Posted September 2, 2023 After 20 months our first glimpse of Serenity as we were being driven into the port in Marseille on July 31, 2023. Keith 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted September 2, 2023 #4281 Share Posted September 2, 2023 Keith, looking forward to a similar view in Quebec next month. Today's sunrise is the last from my 2012 Queen Mary 2 crossing. September 2 was the penultimate sea day on the way to Southampton. Roy 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted September 2, 2023 #4282 Share Posted September 2, 2023 20 hours ago, rafinmd said: Another sunrise from my 2012 Queen Mary 2 transatlantic to Southampton. On September 1 we were near the midpoint of the crossing. Roy The Commodore's cuff links? Do I have that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted September 2, 2023 #4283 Share Posted September 2, 2023 1 hour ago, KenzSailing said: The Commodore's cuff links? Do I have that right? Correct. Roy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 3, 2023 #4284 Share Posted September 3, 2023 I have many photos of Serenity while in Monaco. Some from the street level and others from areas elevated. This one is from August 2 of this year. Keith 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctjon Posted September 3, 2023 #4285 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Keith and other posting recent pictures - are you using a "real' camera or just pictures from your phone's camera. Trying to figure out if I'll dig out my SLR camera or just use my phone's one. I actually thing the phone's specs may be better than my SLR but not the same lens range. Pics are great so interested about what type camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 3, 2023 #4286 Share Posted September 3, 2023 17 minutes ago, ctjon said: Keith and other posting recent pictures - are you using a "real' camera or just pictures from your phone's camera. Trying to figure out if I'll dig out my SLR camera or just use my phone's one. I actually thing the phone's specs may be better than my SLR but not the same lens range. Pics are great so interested about what type camera Most of the photos are from my iPhone. I do love the SLR but the last time I took with with me was NWP in 2016. The benefit was for the long range photos but it can be a lot of weight to carry around. Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted September 3, 2023 #4287 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Some articles of interest in today's WaPo: This should be of special interest to Roy(well, the QM2 aspect) https://wapo.st/45VMRxj And one just for Vince: https://wapo.st/3ZhEfiF 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted September 3, 2023 #4288 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Today's sunrise is not much but I got bullheaded last year and took one anyway. It's from one of the parking garages at my local mall: Roy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted September 3, 2023 #4289 Share Posted September 3, 2023 3 hours ago, KenzSailing said: Some articles of interest in today's WaPo: This should be of special interest to Roy(well, the QM2 aspect) https://wapo.st/45VMRxj And one just for Vince: https://wapo.st/3ZhEfiF Thanks. QM2 may well be the most stable passenger ship ever but the rules of physics are unforgiving, especially in the far North Atlantic. Roy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare May B Posted September 3, 2023 #4290 Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, KenzSailing said: Some articles of interest in today's WaPo: This should be of special interest to Roy(well, the QM2 aspect) https://wapo.st/45VMRxj And one just for Vince: https://wapo.st/3ZhEfiF Thank you for posting your WaPo articles as a gift to us! The restaurants sound fabulous.And I read every word about ballet on Cunard, as well. Edited September 3, 2023 by May B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWIVince Posted September 3, 2023 #4291 Share Posted September 3, 2023 5 hours ago, KenzSailing said: Some articles of interest in today's WaPo: This should be of special interest to Roy(well, the QM2 aspect) https://wapo.st/45VMRxj And one just for Vince: https://wapo.st/3ZhEfiF Thanks Ken! I loved reading both articles, but especially the review of Love, Makoto. I really enjoy reading Tom Sietsema’s reviews. Reading that today reminded me of reading Phyllis Richman’s reviews in the Post when I was a kid. Her Sunday column was in the Magazine (miss that too), so my mother and I would race through the insert bag to find it, but she’d usually get distracted by the bigger and more prominently placed Parade, so I usually ended up with first dibs on the Magazine. I usually read the review (and the rest of the Magazine) while I ate breakfast, and Parade was so thin I usually got a, “are you done with that yet?”…somewhere about halfway through the meal. I had to google where Capitol Crossing is though…. Someday soon they’re going to void my ‘Native Wharshintonian’ card, if I don’t start keeping up. 😞 Vince 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted September 3, 2023 #4292 Share Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, BWIVince said: Thanks Ken! I loved reading both articles, but especially the review of Love, Makoto. I really enjoy reading Tom Sietsema’s reviews. Reading that today reminded me of reading Phyllis Richman’s reviews in the Post when I was a kid. Her Sunday column was in the Magazine (miss that too), so my mother and I would race through the insert bag to find it, but she’d usually get distracted by the bigger and more prominently placed Parade, so I usually ended up with first dibs on the Magazine. I usually read the review (and the rest of the Magazine) while I ate breakfast, and Parade was so thin I usually got a, “are you done with that yet?”…somewhere about halfway through the meal. I had to google where Capitol Crossing is though…. Someday soon they’re going to void my ‘Native Wharshintonian’ card, if I don’t start keeping up. 😞 Vince Well, let's meet at Love, Makoto. We'll hit the BBQ, you can tell us about the sushi. Remember when the WaPo magazine title was at 90 degrees? Yeah, that was dumb. You aren't the only one confused by Capitol Crossing. Our first visit to the area was L'Ardente. As we're approaching, our Lyft driver follows his nav app into a tunnel. Following conversation ensues: Driver(in tunnel): my app says we're here Me: um, yeah, I think it's about 100 feet directly above us We got it sorted, but that was a small adventure. I wonder how many newbies and tourists know the great big office development they're standing at was built over an interstate highway. Ambitious project, and they pulled it off. Have you even been down to the Wharf yet, you slacker? 😁 (Honestly, I shouldn't josh. We've only been there once, but we did take in both dinner at Del Mar and The Decemberists in concert at the Anthem. I swear, for us, the Wharf is so successful its fallen victim to the Yogi-ism "no one goes there anymore, it's too crowded.") Maybe this winter. Edited September 3, 2023 by KenzSailing typo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 4, 2023 #4293 Share Posted September 4, 2023 Another view of Serenity in Monte Carlo. I was shooting into the sun which is never good but had no choice unless I stuck around for awhile. Keith 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted September 4, 2023 #4294 Share Posted September 4, 2023 Going through some photos I found this from 2012. Remember the floral "World Map" on the Symphony? Roy 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted September 4, 2023 #4295 Share Posted September 4, 2023 No travel sunrise for September 4 but this was taken one year ago at the school building across the main street from me. Roy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted September 4, 2023 #4296 Share Posted September 4, 2023 20 hours ago, May B said: Thank you for posting your WaPo articles as a gift to us! The restaurants sound fabulous.And I read every word about ballet on Cunard, as well. You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 5, 2023 #4297 Share Posted September 5, 2023 A view of Serenity on August 3 from atop the downtown area of Portofino. Keith 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted September 5, 2023 #4298 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Today's sunrise is from my 2016 Crystal Serenity Northwest Passage cruise. September 5 was a sea day from Pond Inlet to Greenland: Roy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wearesiamese Posted September 5, 2023 #4299 Share Posted September 5, 2023 (edited) Since we seem to start rumors all about on the Crystal CC page, I was curious if anyone had any idea where Crystal MAY be going in 2025? I realize we wont know until the 14th, but we do like idle speculation in this forum LOL Edited September 5, 2023 by wearesiamese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWIVince Posted September 5, 2023 #4300 Share Posted September 5, 2023 (edited) On 9/3/2023 at 7:01 PM, KenzSailing said: Well, let's meet at Love, Makoto. We'll hit the BBQ, you can tell us about the sushi. Remember when the WaPo magazine title was at 90 degrees? Yeah, that was dumb. You aren't the only one confused by Capitol Crossing. Our first visit to the area was L'Ardente. As we're approaching, our Lyft driver follows his nav app into a tunnel. Following conversation ensues: Driver(in tunnel): my app says we're here Me: um, yeah, I think it's about 100 feet directly above us We got it sorted, but that was a small adventure. I wonder how many newbies and tourists know the great big office development they're standing at was built over an interstate highway. Ambitious project, and they pulled it off. Have you even been down to the Wharf yet, you slacker? 😁 (Honestly, I shouldn't josh. We've only been there once, but we did take in both dinner at Del Mar and The Decemberists in concert at the Anthem. I swear, for us, the Wharf is so successful its fallen victim to the Yogi-ism "no one goes there anymore, it's too crowded.") Maybe this winter. +1 on the fun of following ride share nav instructions, but at least DC isn't the most "layered" city. 395 is sort of the Big Combover, since most of it can't really be called a Big Dig anymore... And some other city already claimed that anyway. I need to embrace the Wharf more -- I'm so far behind on older DC neighborhoods (unless I have to work in them) that I've been putting off even trying to sample the newer ones. I think the Magazine title sort of started out like that originally, right? The WaPo banner was at 90 degrees in the original launch commercial (sample linked below)... BTW, there REALLY is something to ad jingles... I still remember this commercial vividly almost 40 years later, and thought of it as the MaaaAAAAaaaaAAAAaaaagamagazine till they stopped publishing it. https://youtube.com/shorts/XD3nWUFnKAo?si=hljiKtNgxm_k7W2T Vince Edited September 5, 2023 by BWIVince 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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