bluemarble Posted November 3, 2020 #1501 Share Posted November 3, 2020 7 minutes ago, sfred said: Harstad Norway. Several other cruise lines have visited, but unfortunately no Cunard ship in my research. Another good candidate indeed. But as you say, not a port for the current Cunard ships. The only "...stad" Cunard ports I'm seeing are Willemstad (Curacao) and Oranjestad (Aruba). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare carlmm Posted November 3, 2020 #1502 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Where in the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare carlmm Posted November 3, 2020 #1503 Share Posted November 3, 2020 A little bit more to see that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 3, 2020 #1504 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Here's a Cunard cruise port question which can be answered without needing to know anything about past itineraries or in fact without needing to do any research at all. I'm confident this one will be solved fairly quickly. What do these three Cunard port names have in common? Buenos Aires English Harbour Sihanoukville Now there could be any number of interesting things these ports themselves have in common, but I'm looking for some interesting property shared by these three port names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted November 3, 2020 #1505 Share Posted November 3, 2020 They contain all the vowels? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 3, 2020 #1506 Share Posted November 3, 2020 1 minute ago, exlondoner said: They contain all the vowels? As I expected, that didn't take long at all. That's the answer I was looking for. A far as I can tell, these are the only three names of ports visited by the current Cunard ships that contain all the vowels. I know of one other Cunard destination that's not an actual port name which has this property as well. That's Tierra del Fuego. I think English Harbour has the added distinction of being the only Cunard port name that contains each of the vowels exactly once. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underwatr Posted November 3, 2020 #1507 Share Posted November 3, 2020 2 hours ago, carlmm said: Where in the world? 1 hour ago, carlmm said: A little bit more to see that day. Wild guess: Kralendijk, Bonaire. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare carlmm Posted November 3, 2020 #1508 Share Posted November 3, 2020 26 minutes ago, Underwatr said: Wild guess: Kralendijk, Bonaire. Clever! But no, it is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 4, 2020 #1509 Share Posted November 4, 2020 (edited) In the same spirit as our earlier 'q' port game, how about this one? Name a port, where one of the current Cunard ships has called, that begins and ends with the same letter. If the port name consists of multiple words, use the initial letter of the first word and final letter of the last word. For the purposes of this game, I'm only looking at the name of the port's city/town/village, and not considering anything else such as the port's county/state/province, island, region, country or any other administrative unit. Note this restriction means "Aruba" and "St Thomas" do not work, because those are the port's islands rather than "Oranjestad" and "Charlotte Amalie", the names of those port's towns respectively. Once again, please contribute only one answer per day to let everyone who wants to contribute a chance to do so. There are plenty to go around that I've found. I'll start the list with a port that's quite popular. 1. Liverpool Edited November 4, 2020 by bluemarble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted November 4, 2020 Author #1510 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Oslo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaldi Posted November 4, 2020 #1511 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Gothenburg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted November 4, 2020 #1512 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Sept-Îles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted November 4, 2020 #1513 Share Posted November 4, 2020 A Coruña 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 4, 2020 #1514 Share Posted November 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said: A Coruña Very good. One I'd missed because Cunard refers to it as "La Coruña". But of course "A Coruña" is perfectly acceptable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted November 5, 2020 #1515 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Alexandria, Egypt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted November 5, 2020 #1516 Share Posted November 5, 2020 I don't think the current Cunard fleet has been to either New Haven, CT, USA New London, CT, USA but perhaps QM2 has popped in during a past New England/Canada voyage that I'm unaware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted November 5, 2020 #1517 Share Posted November 5, 2020 St. John's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted November 5, 2020 #1518 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Akaroa, NZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted November 5, 2020 Author #1519 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Apia, Samoa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North West Newbie Posted November 5, 2020 #1520 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Aqaba. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaldi Posted November 5, 2020 #1521 Share Posted November 5, 2020 St. George’s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 5, 2020 #1522 Share Posted November 5, 2020 6 hours ago, sfred said: I don't think the current Cunard fleet has been to either New Haven, CT, USA New London, CT, USA but perhaps QM2 has popped in during a past New England/Canada voyage that I'm unaware of. Sorry, I'm not seeing any calls by the current Cunard fleet to either of those ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 5, 2020 #1523 Share Posted November 5, 2020 (edited) Just to avoid any potential confusion, I'm going to join exlondoner and also contribute St. John's today. We have calls listed in the Cunard itineraries to both St. John's, Newfoundland and St. John's, Antigua. I'll add both of those to our list. Here's our list so far of Cunard port names that begin and end with the same letter. 1. Liverpool (England) 2. Oslo (Norway) 3. Gothenburg (Sweden) 4. Sept-Îles (Quebec) 5. A Coruña (Spain) 6. Alexandria (Egypt) 7. St. John's (Newfoundland) 8. St. John's (Antigua) 9. Akaroa (New Zealand) 10. Apia (Samoa) 11. Aqaba (Jordan) 12. St. George's (Grenada) Edited November 5, 2020 by bluemarble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted November 5, 2020 Author #1524 Share Posted November 5, 2020 How many more do you think there are ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 5, 2020 #1525 Share Posted November 5, 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Host Hattie said: How many more do you think there are ? Looks like we have 10 more from what I'm seeing. Edit to add: I think 5 of them have been previously mentioned on this thread and 5 of them have not. Edited November 5, 2020 by bluemarble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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