Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002

[Peter Mugridge]

Including this one, we will have six consecutive posts with paperwork / newsletters / whatever before the next photographs, so I will try to get through these in quick succession.

Tonight's post shows a leaflet which will probably have been one of the most collected on board:

[Twynkle]

Ah, but we weren't technically in port - we were allowed up there for the actual sailing... ( which must be extremely rare on any ship, let alone on the Holy Grail of liners? ).

Hi Peter -These are So Lovely
Have been waiting since 2008/9 to see them!!!!!!
Happy After Silver Wedding Anniversary too!

[June Ingram]

Wonderful photos and remembrances, Peter ! Thanks again for sharing !

[Peter Mugridge]

Hi Peter -These are So Lovely
Have been waiting since 2008/9 to see them!!!!!!
Happy After Silver Wedding Anniversary too!

Thank you... but it's not our silver yet; that's another five years away. 

[Peter Mugridge]

We now move on to album volume 4 with this; an instruction sheet which not very many people will have received as only a handful of passengers left the cruise at Civitavecchia - and this being a maiden call, and us being the first off ( as we were in a hurry to get to Fiumicino airport ), meant we were the first people ever to leave QE2 at this port.

[Peter Mugridge]

The ship's newspaper again, our last before disembarking...

[Rob Lightbody]

The ship's newspaper again, our last before disembarking...

how were you feeling? And when did you think you'd be back on board?

[Peter Mugridge]

how were you feeling? And when did you think you'd be back on board?

I definitely thought we'd be back on board at some point, but a year later our daughter arrived, then three years after that our son.... then QE2 got withdrawn...

[Rob Lightbody]

I definitely thought we'd be back on board at some point, but a year later our daughter arrived, then three years after that our son.... then QE2 got withdrawn...

And have you ever thought of the new Cunard ships, and has this trip down memory lane made you think you might?  The cruise I had to cancel a few weeks ago even went to some of your honeymoon stops!

[Peter Mugridge]

And have you ever thought of the new Cunard ships, and has this trip down memory lane made you think you might?  The cruise I had to cancel a few weeks ago even went to some of your honeymoon stops!

I have, but at the moment the twin problems of money and time are putting it all aside... I'd certainly like to do QM2 just "because" and QV because of the comments from various people that the atmosphere is most like QE2 plus I also believe that's the one with a more traditional interior decor?

[Peter Mugridge]

This appeared in our cabin rather belatedly the night before we disembarked.  Just as well I had enough cash on me... I don't have a credit card anyway, just a debit card.

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

This appeared in our cabin rather belatedly the night before we disembarked.  Just as well I had enough cash on me... I don't have a credit card anyway, just a debit card.

Very directly to the point! And as you say, rather belatedly.

[Peter Mugridge]

Well, what do you know?  All of a sudden the system is now letting me do multiple attachments again, and I am now also able to use the like button again - several months after both those features stopped working.

That's actually rather timely because today we have the bill referred to in the letter from the Purser, and it's spread across two attachments:

[Peter Mugridge]

...and now we're back on pictures, so there will be a breather of a couple of days now.

Here is our final, early, breakfast on board at Civitavecchia and then waiting in prior to disembarking.

[Peter Mugridge]

We have now transferred to Fiumicino from Civitavecchia by fast car; it's surprising how many drivers in Italy get out of the way quickly if they see a big black Mercedes gaining on them...  the transfer only took about half an hour!

Here we are in the lounge awaiting boarding.  We also see the tickets, although unfortunately a bit faded - probably thermal printing?

Delta and Alitalia were operating a code share on the route and our flight was one that was operated by Alitalia; we had a 767 registered I-DEIL - which is still in service today with Omni Air International, registered N378AX.