RE: [Leica] Leica Guilt?

["Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>]

Seth--

Wonderful description. Thank you. :)

Kit
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Seth Rosner
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 4:45 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Guilt?


Kit, in season, QE2 still does regular transat crossings, I think from April
through September or October. She's being taken out of service to make way
for the new Queen Mary II, a 3,000 passenger 150,000 gross tonnes megaship,
too big for my liking.

And several of the well-known cruise lines move ships between the Caribbean
and Europe/Med as the seasons change. But they sail from Miami or Port
Everglades or something like that.

With the possible exception of QE2, today there is nothing whatever to
compare with the excitement of a sailing departure from New York of one of
the great liners. It was a bit like New Year's Eve, people at the railings
and on the pier waving at one another, confetti flying, champagne corks
popping and the deep penetrating boom of the ship's horn signaling that all
lines have been cast off and the ship is under way, a tugboat humping away
at the ship's stern to bend it into the channel and point the head down the
North River, past the Statue of Liberty and on toward the Ambrose Light and
the open sea. It was something else.

Seth            LaK 9

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From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 4:25 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Guilt?


> Gosh. I wish they had transatlantic crossings for passengers (not just
> merchant marines) by ship these days. Used to be, so I'm told, you could
> take a tanker or a cargo ship across the waters ... is this still true?
Has
> anyone ever done this, or done it recently?
>
> Kit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Seth Rosner
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 1:07 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Guilt?
>
>
> It wasn't a cruise, Austin, just a normal trans-atlantic sailing, seven
> days. Nieuw Amsterdam did it in six and the Queens (Mary and Elizabeth) in
> five and-a-half if I recall.
>
> The room was large and comfortable, second floor overlooking the street
and
> diagonally the Marche de Buci. My patronne, Mme. Josiane Vavasseur, used
to
> call me monsieur seth (pronounced in the non-diphthong French - sept) de
la
> chambre numero onze); the bed was large, the salle de bain had no douche
but
> of course did have a bidet.
>
> I did not fall in love in S.S. Statendam. I did fall in love in Hotel St.
> Andre des Arts. More than once.
>
> The better buy? No contest.
>
> Seth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:38 PM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Guilt?
> >
> > > In April 1961 I bought my first and only Porsche new at the
> > > factory; a 356B
> > > Super 90 coupe, it cost me $3,300. A year earlier I sailed from
> > > New York to
> > > Le Havre in Holland America Line S.S. Statendam. My first class cabin
> cost
> > > $250. During the ensuing year, my room at the Hotel St. Andre des Arts
> in
> > > the rue of the same name, y compris bain, petit dejeuner, taxe et
> service,
> > > cost me the equivalent of $2.50. par jour.
> > >
> > > Which was the better buy?
> >
> > Hi Seth,
> >
> > That depends.  How many days was the cruise, and tell me more about the
> > hotel room.  Decent view, size, finish...etc.  I'm leaning towards the
1st
> > class cabin though...
> >
> > Austin
> >
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