How Could Anyone Live In A House With A Thatched Roof? 9/8/12 When I took a shore excursion on July 13 to Stonehenge and Salisbury, I saw houses in town with thatched roofs. This is something I might associate with… Continue Reading →

The Only Ice Cubes I Saw In Europe Were At Salisbury Cathedral 9/7/12 What’s with the lack of ice cubes in July? We stopped at numerous McDonalds at autohofs and numerous Burger Kings at rest areas along the autobahns. Not… Continue Reading →

Too Sacred For A Photo — The Magna Carta 9/6/12 This past July we took a shore excursion from Southampton to Salisbury/Stonehenge. While in Salisbury we spent all our time at the Salisbury Cathedral. There was supposed to be no… Continue Reading →

Cunard Ought To Figure Out How To Disembark Its Passengers 9/5/12 After doing two disembarkations from the QM2 within one month — once in Hamburg on July 15 and once in Brooklyn on August 3, I wish there was a… Continue Reading →

Tuesday It Must Be Belgium — That’s What The Cunard Shore Excursion To Stonehenge/Salisbury Was Like 9/4/12 I have long ago memories of being rushed around Europe on three week tours by bus when I was in high school. I… Continue Reading →

‘m Glad We Didn’t Take Our Pets On The QM2 9/3/12 We tried for 2 years to make reservations for our Labrador Retriever and our Ruddy Abyssinian to ride up on deck 12 to Hamburg and back. We always were… Continue Reading →

On our return cruise from Hamburg we were trying to buy gifts for friends and relatives. But we knew we couldn’t carry everything when it came time to disembark. So we asked the shops on deck 3 to mail packages… Continue Reading →

Our European Tour: We Wore Dirty Clothes For 10 Days 9/1/12 We left the ship with clean clothes and planned to do laundry at various European motels. We even brought laundry packets in our luggage. But when we got to… Continue Reading →

The Mandarin Oriental: A Maid Broke Into Our Room For $900.00/Night 8/31/12 We checked into the Mandarin Oriental in Munich because it was the closest hotel to the Hofbrauhaus. We had only a few hours in town, and that’s what… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, August 29, ’12 H-104 Tucson L H 65 L 58 RAIN H H 73 L 59 M H 81 L 60 L–74 C H 92 L 76Bear update: The Bear says Jack Has Crashed Our Indian Tom Tom Dance… Continue Reading →