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[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise will double as a where am I.  I have been there on HAL and Crystal has been there but not me aboard.  It  was August 23 but for now I won't say what year:

 

 

Roy

[FlyerTalker]

Downtown Seattle.

[rafinmd]

1 hour ago, FlyerTalker said:

Downtown Seattle.

Good guess but wrong country.

 

Roy

[MightyQuinn]

3 hours ago, rafinmd said:

Today's sunrise will double as a where am I.  I have been there on HAL and Crystal has been there but not me aboard. 

 

I'm thinking somewhere in the Atlantic Provinces.  Fredericton?  Halifax?

[wearesiamese]

To Roy, re picture #1  you   were on this cruise with me LOL--->giveaway now LOL

[wearesiamese]

3 hours ago, rafinmd said:

Today's sunrise will double as a where am I.  I have been there on HAL and Crystal has been there but not me aboard.  It  was August 23 but for now I won't say what year:

 

 

Roy

I am going to zoom in on that license plate  to check that and  which side of the car the steering wheel is on(one way street could be either ) LOL

Flag looks like Canada?

 

Edited August 23, 2020 by wearesiamese
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[rafinmd]

22 minutes ago, MightyQuinn said:

 

I'm thinking somewhere in the Atlantic Provinces.  Fredericton?  Halifax?

Fredericton and Halifax are close.

 

Roy

[MightyQuinn]

10 minutes ago, rafinmd said:

Fredericton and Halifax are close.

 

I'm pretty sure it's not in PEI or NL.  How about Saint John NB? 

[rafinmd]

8 minutes ago, MightyQuinn said:

 

I'm pretty sure it's not in PEI or NL.  How about Saint John NB? 

You got it!  Looking pretty much directly up the street from the cruise terminal.

 

Roy

[Jim9310]

WHERE IS THIS CITY?

 

 

Edited August 24, 2020 by Jim9310

[SusieQft]

3 hours ago, Jim9310 said:

WHERE IS THIS CITY?

Cobh, County Cork, on the south coast of Ireland

[MightyQuinn]

Pretty sure it's Cobh (Cork) Ireland.  The statue to Sonia O' Sullivan and St Colman's Cathedral are give-aways. 

[rafinmd]

Another sunrise this morning from the Empress of the Seas.  One year ago we were coming into the Port of Miami,

 

 

Roy

[Jim9310]

8 hours ago, SusieQft said:

Cobh, County Cork, on the south coast of Ireland

Yes, it is!  Has interesting maritime histories (e.g. military, trade, emigration, Titanic).

Cork day trips tend to visit Blarney Castle and/or Midleton distillery.

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise photo comes from my 2010. Grand Alaska and Panama trip.  On August 25 the Symphony was approaching Bimini as the sun came up.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

A few days ago I posted a sunrise in Saint John, NB.  This is from the same trip.  After Saint John I traveled by train to Montreal and dropped in on my cousin about 20 miles to the south.  This sunrise was taken from his farm, the family homestead since the 1850's.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

For all my cruising I have never caught a sunrise while at sea on August 27.  I took my walk early this morning as the sun came up above my downtown lakefront.

 

 

Roy

[oakridger]

Nice picture Roy....."Home Sweet Home"

 

~Nancy

[BWIVince]

That’s one of my favorite places, Roy!  The developer’s old office building was one of my favorite headquarters-type campus.  It’s funny to think of it as a supermarket now.

 

Vince

[rafinmd]

 

5 hours ago, BWIVince said:

That’s one of my favorite places, Roy!  The developer’s old office building was one of my favorite headquarters-type campus.  It’s funny to think of it as a supermarket now.

 

Vince

The space between Whole Foods and the lakefront entry is now being developed by the county as a mini kids playground.

 

Today's sunrise is from the same trip as the photo from my cousin's farm.  The train from Montreal arrives in New York too late to effectively allow a reliable connection to Baltimore and rather than spend the night in New York I got off a couple hours earlier in Poughkeepsie.  This sunrise is from Poughkeepsie:

 

 

Roy

 

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise photo comes from the first of my round trip transatlantic sailings, 2012.  I sailed Queen Mary 2 New York to Southampton, transferred to Dover, and returned to New York on the Symphony.  This was August 28 from Queen Mary 2:

 

 

Roy

[seakitteh]

On 8/23/2020 at 8:47 AM, rafinmd said:

Today's sunrise will double as a where am I.  I have been there on HAL and Crystal has been there but not me aboard.  It  was August 23 but for now I won't say what year:

 

 

Roy

 

[seakitteh]

Just now, seakitteh said:

Quebec City?

 

 

[rafinmd]

15 hours ago, seakitteh said:

Quebec City

 

Saint John, NB.  And the name is ALWAYS spelled out to avoid confusion with St. Johns,   Newfoundland.  People who have been careless about the difference have ended up at the wrong airport.

 

Roy

Edited August 30, 2020 by rafinmd

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from the same voyage as yesterday's, still on QM2 headed for England to connect with the Crystal Symphony.

 

 

Roy