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Queen Victoria Cruise Voyage V913: Mediterranean Medley II - 17th-30th August 2009 Day 2: 18th August - Sea Day |
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This is the record of a 13 night cruise taken on
board Cunard's Queen Victoria from Southampton on 17th August 2009. This page covers the
first sea day out of
Southampton on Tuesday 18th August.
The first sea day started bright and sunny. As we rounded Ushant there was a large Maersk container ship not far ahead. I hoped we would catch her but these days freighter regularly travel at higher speeds than cruise ships, and she steadily pulled away from us. The sea in Biscay looked almost glass calm, but there was the inevitable and barely visible swell which caused Queen Victoria to roll slowly as we headed south west at around 22 knots, overtaking the occasional freighter. The ship had been fully booked for some weeks, with the website sowing zero availability in all grades. As with other ships of over 90000grt that I have travelled on, public areas seemed quiet most of the time. Only at the busiest times at the Lido buffet was it necessary to seek out a spare table. A reasonable espresso was available at the Carinthia cafe on deck 3 by the Atrium, although not up the standards on Celebrity or Costa Cruises. Food in the Britannia Restaurant was very good for mass catering - much better than I recall on the QE2. The 'Queen Mary pastiche' interiors are fairly tacky in some areas, but she feels a very comfortable ship and the overall impression is preferable to the blandness of Princess or the exaggerated colours of recent Holland America deliveries (see my page on the 2008 Eurodam - a ship of essentially the same class as Queen Victoria). |
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