We want to tell you a bit about our home on the QM2.

Our room is on the 8th Deck out of 11 Decks and are in the middle of the ship but we love the picture of our hallway...it goes forever!! It is 3 football fields long!! There are 2,470 guests and 1,500 staff on board. The Brittish are 1,316 srong and we have 582 from USA. It is a floating city or floating resort. Take your choice.

Here we are filling up at the gas station in Salvador, Brazil. The statistics on this ship are unbelievable. It holds 1.4 million gallons of heavy fuel oil and 1 million gallons of Marine Gas Oil. It is one of the fastest ships in the ocean with 150,000 Horse Power.

We spent Sunday in the 3rd largest city in Brazil called Salvador de Bahia (State) and because we toured the city in our 2004 visit on QM2, staying aboard ship was more appealing but it is a wonderful mix of old and new.

Our dinner companions are an interesting group and by chance they are all German. The maitre d' who assigns tables is probably responsible. Peter at the left is from South Africa but born in Germany. Regina and Gareth are from San Jose,CA retired from HP and are examples of freed East Germans making it good in the USA. Marriana is from Germany and winters in St. Tropez along the French coast. She is on till the end in England but the others are off in Cape Town.