On one of QE2's visits to The North Cape, i think it could have been from Skarsvag, my family were travelling and, as such, needed to 'work their passage'! Therefoore they wwere 'volunteered' to do bus escorts to The North Cape. So my wife and youngest daughter went on one bus, my wife being an 'old hand' as these tasks, and daughter No 1 and son went on another bus. My wife briefed daughter No 1 on her duties, she was 17 or 18 at the time, which included making sure everyone knew the bus number. So when daughter No 1 & son got on their bus they discovered that there was no number, so she decided to call it 'Liz's bus'!
Fast foreward a few years and, post 'ethnic cleansing' i was doing my 'penal servitude' onboard Ocean Village and we were doing 7 day cruises out of Palma de Majorca with a lot of passengers arriving on charter flights. One turnaround one of these flights was running late and, although sailing was sheduled for 2000 it was 2130 before this last flight's passengers arrived at the ship. So i was 'encouraging' them to be as quick as possible through Security when one man, who was waiting for his wife to finish repacking her handbag, said to me thhat he recognised me. Doubting this, i said that i was new to OV but he said that it wasn't on OV that he remembered me from, then he said QE2? To which i repleid 'oh yes i was on QE2', he then said, we were on the North Cape Cruise, we were on 'Liz's bus'!
