Results tagged “Books” from East Asia 2017

Woke up at 06:00 by Stu's alarm set last week when we had to get up to go to the airport. Grunt. Didn't get back to sleep after that.

View of the East China Sea and sky from our balcony

GPS and battery attached to our balcony. This is where the GPS sat for much of the trip.

Watched part of a talk by Pamela Chen Moore, a Taiwanese lady who'd lived in England for half her life, as a replay on tv.

Then went to breakfast relatively early.

After breakfast I did a wander around the back decks on deck 6 and 8, and then had a good long wander through deck 3.

View off the stern of the Queen Mary 2

Deck 6 spa and stern of ship

Deck 8 aft end

View of deck 6 and 7 from deck 8

Terrace Pool on deck 8

Clarendon Fine Art Gallery

Chart Room

Veuve Clicquot Champagne Bar

Commemorative Queen Mary 2 bell above the Grand Lobby

The Grand Lobby

At 10:00 I went to the port info talk on Incheon/Seoul.

Planetarium Dome in Illuminations Theatre

Then I wandered around some more and ended up back at the jigsaw I started yesterday. Not much had been done since I left it, so I stayed to work on it. And ended up finishing it. Whoops.

Lower Royal Court Theatre

Seating in the Royal Court Theatre

It was about 14:00 by this point, so collected the sweetie and we went to have lunch.

After lunch we headed up to the library and I borrowed a couple of books.

Came back to the room and read for a while.

Around 16:00 I went out for another wander - this time up to the Commodore club. It was practically deserted due to an event which had just finished and cleared out. Would be a lovely spot for an afternoon drink, although they don't allow jeans :/

Commodore Club seating

View of the bow from the Commodore Club

Model of the Queen Mary 2 in the Commodore Club

Then walked around deck 9, which is where all the big expensive staterooms are. They even have fancier doors heh.

Went to the purser's office and bought 300 RMB, to save us having to look for an ATM tomorrow.

At 17:00 I went and saw Sully, which I quite enjoyed, even though I'm sure much of it has been dramatised and may not have actually happened the way they showed it..

Came back to the room and started charging devices and batteries.

I'm actually a little apprehensive about going to Shanghai tomorrow. We've been to three different Chinese territories, but this is the first time to China proper. They like Australians right?

Dinner was great as always. Stu had Thai seafood salad, aubergine gratin and cappacino cheesecake. I had lamb koftas, roast beef which was wonderful and tender, and creme brulee.

Group photo taken on Bob and Virginia's last night. Back: Bob and Virginia from Tweed Heads, Norman from the UK, Stuart and Karen. Front: Kay from the UK, David and Licia from Perth