WATERY WEDNESDAY - A LONG WALK TO WHERE THE OCEAN STARTS...

Margate beach, UK, 2011

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - ALL HANDS ON DECK....

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - AN EARLY MORNING WALK AROUND THE DECK OF THE QM2...

I preferred to eat breakfast watching them go by....

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS - TRAVELS WITH MY NIECE...

    We visited family in Faversham, Kent, stopping at a pub for dinner, eating outside in the garden.  The weather was perfect.  

At The ALBION on Faversham Creek

Left - Bernice's brother Paul and family, McKinley and baby Jasper, behind him is Jean and my brother Ronald at the head of the table.  I am staying with Jean and Ronald who still live in my grandmother's house in Westbrook, Margate, Kent.

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - TRAVELS WITH MY NIECE...CONTINUED FROM AUGUST 22 POST...

  Bernice would begin her day walking around the deck of the QM2 three times, as many other passengers would do;  as many as there were, the ship would still feel remarkably uncrowded.

Then she would bring me a cup of coffee!   Next, a buffet breakfast on deck 7, followed by

checking out the stores on deck 3, before finding some activity like a lecture, or simply exploring the whereabouts of everything else one can do.  It is a world unto itself.  Afternoon tea at 4 pm and a chance to eat scones with strawberry jam and real cream!  Dinner usually at 6 pm.  In the end we preferred the buffet offerings elsewhere, one of which was open all night.  Then off to 

the theatre or the cinema.   

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WATERY WEDNESDAY - WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE...

Photographing the ocean became a fascinating project - the best moments so fleeting...

We made the most of it!

The color changes, the wind and surf, and the effect of the sun rays on the ripples and the rolling waves - we did not see the moon!

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SKYWATCH FRIDAY - TRAVELS WITH MY NIECE: Arrived Southampton, England, Monday 29 August...

Land, at last, sighted at dawn, following 7 days of scenic surf and sea, not another ship, whale or dolphin

to be seen.  The weather was remarkably good considering the alarming news of IRENE which reached  the east coast of NY the day we left.  The internet connection was interrupted many times and we could only watch and fear the worst of the impact for those caught in its path on Tv.

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Tugs busily enabling QM2 to reverse into harbor.  

Our last naughty early morning breakfast on board!  Pate, hash browns, streaky bacon

tomato and toast.  Resisted adding all sorts of other equally mouth-watering variations of a typically English breakfast offered buffet style.

It was so good to be away from an incredibly noisy NYC existence for a week!  And two days later I am still struck how quiet it is everywhere!

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