Where in the world ?

[Host Hattie]

10 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

Yeah, the more I study your photo the more apparent it becomes that the other ship is either Marella Explorer's previous incarnation as Mein Schiff / Mein Schiff 1 or else her sister ship which was previously known as Mein Schiff 2. Either way, a better photo would be good to help confirm that I've earned the bonus point for that one. 🙂

Does this help ?

[bluemarble]

Just now, Host Hattie said:

Does this help ?

 

Yes, that helps quite a bit. And I think it helps narrow down the date the photo was taken. According to Wikipedia, that ship was only named "Mein Schiff" from 15 May 2009 until November 2010 when she was renamed "Mein Schiff 1". Later in 2018 she became Marella Explorer.

 

Assuming they repainted her stern to read "Mein Schiff 1" in November 2010, that means the photo would have to have been taken between May 2009 and November 2010. Am I on to something there?

[Host Hattie]

Definitely the right time frame ....

[bluemarble]

Just now, Host Hattie said:

Definitely the right time frame ....

 

Now if I could just find TUI Cruises itineraries for 2009/2010. Those seem to be very hard to come by.

[Host Hattie]

Happy hunting & in the meantime as nobody has given yours a go, I'm going for St Kitts.

[bluemarble]

Correct. That's the Basseterre, St. Kitts cruise terminal taken during the 2013 Christmas cruise on December 28, 2013.

Edited August 24, 2020 by bluemarble

[Germancruiser]

I was just about to write- somewhere in the carribbean. LOL. St. Kitt. Well at least now i know. LOL:

[DaisyDancer]

You're all far too good at this game - I haven't got any of the locations so far!  What about this bleak looking one?

[carlmm]

30 minutes ago, DaisyDancer said:

You're all far too good at this game - I haven't got any of the locations so far!  What about this bleak looking one?

 

 

Beautiful Alesund, Norway.

[rafinmd]

Certainly no challenge here but I'll put this up anyway.  Since most of my Cunard destinations are either Brooklyn to Southampton I don't really have a lot to contribute:

 

 

Roy

[DaisyDancer]

2 hours ago, carlmm said:

 

Beautiful Alesund, Norway.

 

Correct.  Another stop on my Northern lights cruise last November  

[bluemarble]

2 hours ago, rafinmd said:

Certainly no challenge here but I'll put this up anyway.  Since most of my Cunard destinations are either Brooklyn to Southampton I don't really have a lot to contribute:

 

 

Roy

 

Thanks for posting this photo, Roy. I took the opportunity to find and read your blog from the Bangkok-Dubai segment of the 2010 QV World Voyage that you took. I presume this photo is from that voyage.

[Host Hattie]

Great photo Roy

[rafinmd]

1 hour ago, bluemarble said:

 

Thanks for posting this photo, Roy. I took the opportunity to find and read your blog from the Bangkok-Dubai segment of the 2010 QV World Voyage that you took. I presume this photo is from that voyage.

That was some detective work as searching ancient Cruise Critic threads seems to be pretty much a weakness these days.

 

Roy

[bluemarble]

 

54 minutes ago, rafinmd said:

That was some detective work as searching ancient Cruise Critic threads seems to be pretty much a weakness these days.

 

Roy

 

I hear you. The Cruise Critic search functionality rarely finds anything for me that's over a year or two old. To find older threads I try a google search that includes "site:boards.cruisecritic.com".

 

Here's my photo contribution for today. This is stretching the rules to the limit since there is very little of the ship showing, but hey, I'm running low on photos of ships in port. Those are QV balconies at the right of the picture. I don't think it will be too difficult to identify the location from what's shown of the port facilities, so where in the world is QV in this shot?

 

Edited August 25, 2020 by bluemarble

[bluemarble]

On 8/23/2020 at 12:05 PM, Host Hattie said:

She's there somewhere

 

 

HH, I'm still working on this photo of yours from post #36. I had pretty much narrowed it down to the Caribbean anyway (after ruling out the Canary Islands). But then I found an old post that mentions you did the QM2 Christmas cruise in 2009 which falls within the time frame that Mein Schiff was operating under that name. That doesn't narrow things down a whole lot since there were so many ports on that cruise. But unless there were any port substitutions, that means it should be one of these islands.

 

Grand Turk

Tortola

Curacao

Grenada

Barbados

St Lucia

Dominica

St Kitts

St Thomas

 

I also found a TUI press release about Mein Schiff that says she would be doing Caribbean itineraries from November 2009 to March 2010 including calls at the following islands.

 

Grenada

Barbados

St Lucia

Antigua

Martinique

Dominica

St Maarten

Guadeloupe

 

So far I've looked at quite a few photos of all those islands (concentrating on the islands on both of those itineraries) to no avail trying to match that scenery, but I'll give it a go for a little while longer until I give up. Of course if anyone else recognizes this specific Caribbean beach, by all means please jump right in any time.

 

By the way, thanks for starting this game to divert us from all the other distractions, both cruise-related and otherwise.

Edited August 25, 2020 by bluemarble

[Redrobo]

This was taken 16 November 2007. We were on a Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas, put to shame in the Fog horn battle. It was our last port of call before returning to San Juan.

 

Edited August 25, 2020 by Redrobo

[Host Hattie]

@bluemarble good detective work so far, it's one of the islands on your list. I think there was an itinerary change as we called at St Maarten.

[bluemarble]

1 hour ago, Redrobo said:

This was taken 16 November 2007. We were on a Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas, put to shame in the Fog horn battle. It was our last port of call before returning to San Juan.

 

 

Thank you for your contribution, Redrobo. I wouldn't have recognized the location on its own, but based on the details you provided, backed up by additional photo research, that's Bridgetown, Barbados.

 

And just to seal the deal, here's a quote I found on the roll call for your voyage.

"For those cruise nuts like me I found out that Queen Mary 2 will be in Barbados with us....hurray!:D"

 

P.S.: I think the date of your photo might actually be 15 November 2007. That's the date I have for QM2 being in Barbados and I think 16 November may have been a sea day for you before your arrival back at San Juan on 17 November.

[bluemarble]

4 hours ago, Host Hattie said:

@bluemarble good detective work so far, it's one of the islands on your list. I think there was an itinerary change as we called at St Maarten.

 

Ah, thanks for the tip. I may have to look at St Maarten a little more closely. I see in your roll call that the ports were changed in October 2009 from the original list I have to the following revised list (St Maarten was substituted for Grand Turk).

 

Tortola

St Maarten

Curacao

Grenada

Barbados

St Lucia

Dominica

St Kitts

St Thomas

 

Your roll call also tells me which ports were expected to be tender ports. That should help with my research since that photo certainly looks like you were anchored off shore. I may figure this out yet although it may have to wait until tomorrow for me to continue the research. I got too distracted earlier this evening with Redrobo's photo.

[bluemarble]

@Host Hattie -- Bingo! It's Grenada!!!

 

I couldn't let this drop being so close to the answer, and in the end it didn't take very long once I knew which islands to concentrate on. I didn't find another photo of that exact beach (with the rocks in the foreground), but I did find a closer-in photo from Grenada that matches many of the same features on shore in the distance. It looks like the photo I found was taken further along the coast to the right of your photo, closer to St George's.

 

So, my answer is Grenada and I'm reasonably confident of that answer.

[Host Hattie]

You're right to be confident, it is Grenada in December 2009. 

[Host Hattie]

I'm stumped by @bluemarble's latest, anyone's detective skills better than mine ?

[Ray66]

Is it Cherbourg?

[Host Hattie]

Good spot. I was thinking the buildings looked Portuguese or Spanish. I think my only visit to Cherbourg was on a school trip, I was horribly sea sick !