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Thank You 500,000 readers

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Luxury - CRYSTAL CRUISES announces expanded collection of 2017 & 2018 CRYSTAL Getaways

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CRYSTAL CRUISES´s continued commitment to offer luxury travelers more choices for luxury getaways, CRYSTAL unveiled an expanded selection of CRYSTAL Getaways - abbreviated voyages derived from longer existing itineraries - for both 2017 and 2018. This enables luxury travellers to shorten their buckset lists with CRYSTAL CRUISES. by Earl of Cruise Click here for luxury Crystal Cruises 2017 - 2018 CRYSTAL SERENETY in the Greek Islands - courtesy CRYSTAL CRUISES The new collection of Crystal Getaways includes: 2017 December 1, Mahé/Victoria to Port Louis, 8 days, Crystal Symphony December 6, Fort Lauderdale to Barbados/Bridgetown, 8 days, Crystal Serenity December 9, Port Louis to Maputo, 7 days, Crystal Symphony December 14, Barbados/Bridgetown to Charleston, 6 days, Crystal Serenity December 16, Maputo to Cape Town, 6 days, Crystal Symphony 2018 January 30, Honolulu to Sydney, 17 days, Crystal Serenity March 15, Hong Kong to Singapore, 14 days, Crystal Ser...
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Thank You!!!

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Mid November 2017 ... NORMANDIE Le Seigneur d´Atlantique, Le Vaisseau de Lumière, La Deesse de la Mer - Le NORMANDIE. I reached a new benchmark with my blog and it is crazy to see that number 300,000 readers, of whom are more than 17,000 repeaters ... Thank You!
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Destination - Capri, Dolce Vita and Legends - a cruise on board ANDREA

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Capri filled with legends, over boarding beauty and Italian `dolce vita´ More than 190 years after the German painter August Kopisch's `discovery´ of the Grotta Azzurra in 1826, Capri ( it is pronounced `KAH pree´, with an accent on the first syllable ) is the most sophisticated island in the Mediterranean. The sound of its name evokes nostalgia, beauty and enthusiasm. And more so, each one of us can and will find its `own´ Capri. by Earl of Cruise Grotta Azzura on Capri - Source: Atlantide Phototravel © Corbis During a Mediterranean cruise from Barcelona to Venezia on board the yacht like ANDREA of ELEGANT CRUISES & TOURS one of the beautiful destinations has been Capri ... Early morning, approaching Capri - © Earl of Cruise Capri smells of sweet life, light moments, riches and pomp. It is the island of love and happiness. Capri is the place for yearning, dreams and wonderful craziness. Capri is a myths in the Mediterranean Sea, unique and tender,...
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Luxury Cruise Alaska - Kodiak bear, moose, salmon, glaciers, champagne and caviar

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Alaska - The Last Frontier .  Seeking adventure and the `company´ of kodiak , grizzly , moose , salmon and glaciers in the vast landscape of Alaskas wilderness, accompanied with champagne and caviar. CRYSTAL SYMPHONY, refreshed and more luxurious, by an over € 20,000,000.00 refit, will take you to a 14 day/night cruise into the Alaskan wilderness for an adventure accompanied by champaign, cavair and refreshed luxurious interiors. by Earl of Cruise Mama grizzly on nosy lookout - courtesy cu-camper On a 14 night trip CRYSTAL SYMPHONY takes you to breathtaking Alaskan sceneries. While you stay in a class top suite or stateroom CRYSTAL SYMPHONY takes you to from Vancouver in the Inner Passage and beyond, visiting places on this cruise´ roundtrip (ports of call are): Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - at sea Cruising The Scenic Inside Passage - Ketchikan, Alaska - Juneau, Alaska - Hoonah, Alaska - Skagway, Alaska - at sea Cruising Tracy Arm - at sea Cruising The Gul...
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HISTORY - The CUNARD - WHITE STAR Liner rms QUEEN ELIZABETH (1938-1972)

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Over years, in my early youth, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was shaping my mind for the perfect ocean liner, despite having made my first experiences with a liner onboard the HANSEATIC (1), ex EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND, ex EMPRESS OF JAPAN. When leaning at the rail of HANSEATIC entering the port, my eyes where every where and I wished to by a camera, I took all in. And when seeing the QUEEN ELIZABETH with my own eyes, the nice behaving young boy turned into a tomboy, that my grandmére was no longer able to tame ... I did draw quite a lot of looks, back then. I found, while on research, this article and thought it interesting publishing in my blog: written and published by John Sheperd at liverpoolships.org editing and comments by Earl of Cruise I ( John Shepard ) joined the CUNARD LINE in March 1962 as an Assistant Purser and sailed the QUEEN ELIZABETH throughout that year, before transferring to the Liverpool-based CARINTHIA in November, where I remained as Crew Purser for the next five...
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Ocean Liners in Movies or Films at Sea (updated Nov 2017)

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For liners and the shipping companies movies and films had been a top marketing tool Movies or Films and liners at sea, had been intriguing me since I have read about in my youth in LUXUSLINER - BILDER EINER GROSSEN ZEIT by Lee Server ( THE GOLDEN AGE OF OCEAN LINERS ). But earlier, mot only since my first crossing, I was keen watching movies with liners in it, and disapointed, which was an understatement, when I realized the films have been made in a set ashore in some movie "factory". That was after my first crossing.   by Earl of Cruise an essay in progress `Sabrina´, Humphrey Bogart in the office, while LIBERTÉ is sailing out of New York harbor - screenshot Ocean liners, especially those of the luxury category, had been the location of dramas, love stories, thrillers, suspense and catastrophies sinde film was born, or nearly. In this list, the most descriptions are taken from Wikipedia, as I guess no one can expect having seen all these films ... otherwise I w...
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HISTORY - the ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY sailing the South Atlantic

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While on research for an article published in print in Jan/Feb 2017 eventually, about the CAP Express steamers of HAMBURG-SÜD (Wikipedia) HAMBURG SÜDAMERIKANISCHEDAMPFSCHIFFFAHRTSGESELLSCHAFT I had to look into the competitors and took advantage of creating seperate articles about. by Earl of Cruises ROYAL MAIL LINE cruise broshure of 1959 - own collection The first of these South America or Rio de la Plata route related articles is about the ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY which was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by the Scottisch business entrepreneur James MacQueen. The line's motto was ` Per Mare Ubique´ (everywhere by sea) - nobody ever should argue about the motto of Albert Ballin `Mein Feld ist die Welt´, both mottos are not ostentatious they express the same: I don´t want to be hindered by frontiers and my limit is the other shore or the sky. After good and bad times ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY became the largest shipping group in...
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ss NORMANDIE 1935-1942 XIII - Le NORMANDIE the great triumph and tragic end of the greatest ship of France

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NORMANDIE at sea - courtsey coloured by Daryl LeBlanc Le NORMANDIE , the greates ship of France, was a great triumph for the French industry, economy the most gracious ambassador of France - a symbol of cultur and Savoir de Vivre. NORMANDIE never surppassed by any liner. But whom the gods love, they beat him to a tragic ending. In case of NORMANDIE the gods let do their dirty job by careless, ignorant and arrogant US Navy officials and their sub contractors.   by Earl of Cruise   NORMANDIE had 4 years of living and the chance to bring Glitz, Glamour and Luster into a world that was just in front of an abyss since October 1929. Sailing with NORMANDIE , created to cater primarily the First Clas clientele, and enjoying life on board seems to me today, as a Dance on the Volcano, that errupted in 1939. Longitudinal cutaway of PARIS - own collection copy from a CGT broshure ÎLE DE FRANCE , Cie Gle TRANSATLANTIQUE provoking ART DÉCO liner - own collection  ...
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Liners - Can classic ocean liners make a comeback

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Classic ocean liners, crossing the oceans, had been for long time the only way to cross the seas. A comeback of ocean liners for real? When in 2010 the Islandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull did errupt, and all flights that would come near his ash-clouds had to be cancelled, people had been trapped on each side of the pond ... And immidiately all available cabins on containerships had been booked, cruise vessels sailing either to the Americas or Europe had been flodded by desperate travellers to get to their destination ... Going by ship was in those days the only way to cross. It did show a certain, but temporary neccessity of liner traffic. But unfortunately we did not have any longer a frequent crossing possibility by ship - Transatlantic liners, liners per se had gone, gone with the wind of history and technical progress in air flight. Is an ocean liner comeback possible? by Earl of Cruise rms QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 © Beken - own collection, copy from a postcard CUNARD held the ...
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Heritage - Austrian and Hungarian immigrants in USA

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Austrian and Hungarian immigrants contributed immense to the US culture and economy. America, after its re-discovering by Christopher Columbus in 1492, was the first place of Austrian and Hungarian to immigrate to. It was the land of hope and possibilities, and the young USA, as the former colony, needed immigrants ... and these immigrants found vast opportunities in a country that was more or less "empitied" of humans, after the first contact with Europeans, and their, unknown to the indigen population and themselves, biological weapons - diseases for that the American natives had nothing to fight against, as they had been unknown to them, after eons of "isolation". by Earl of Cruise Emmigrants in the BALLIN STADT, a center for emmigrants initiated by Albert Ballin, after Cholera epidemiic in Hamburg 1892 - Source: BALLIN STADT Although some estimates suggest that the numbers of Austrians in the United States have represented less than one tenth of 1 p...
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Historic Review - ss COLUMBIA 1890 von Gustav Kopal in Die Gartenlaube

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Gustav Kopal segelte mit ss COLUMBIA der HAPAG, einem German Greyhound, verfasste einen Reisebericht, welcher in Die Gartenlaube 1890 publiziert wurde - Ueber den Ocean, Bilder von einem deutschen Schnelldampfer .  reprint from Die Gartenlaube, writer Gutav Ko pal Ich habe den Reisebericht bei meinen Recherchen für meine neue Artikelserie über die Deutschen Windhunde ( German Greyhounds ) zur See gefunden. Viel Spaß beim Lesen. Der Text ist in der alten deutschen Orthographie gehalten, um die Authentizität aufrecht zu erhalten.     ss COLUMBIA auf einem HAPAG Reiseplakat von 1893 Ueber den Ocean. Bilder von einem deutschen Schnelldampfer von Gustav Kopal, Zeichnungen von Alexander Kircher. ss COLUMBIA - Die Gartenlaube (1890) Bild von Alexander Kircher Haben Sie gehört? Die ,Columbia‘ hat den besten Record! In 6 Tagen 7 Stunden 48 Minuten über den Oecan, noch dazu auf der ersten Reise; beste Fahrt und beste maiden-trip, die je gemacht wo...
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Luxury Lifestyle - An amazingly large number of 386,144 star hotels exist worldwide

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No less than 386,144 star rated hotels worldwide are waiting for their guests. This is the result of the latest study by DELTA CHECK, operator of the world's largest hotel database. The unexpectedly high number amazes even seasoned hotel experts. Among these star rated hotels are 19,390 in the 5star range! Seeing todays cruise companies trying to get a share in the highest revenue creating market segment is normal. The mass market companies can not create the revenue they need that easy in the lower end of the "food chain". The real money in the hospitality industry is created in the luxury end. But refering to hospitality ratings - there is no such thing as a 6star or 7star rating! It is a "dairy tale" or "alternative fact" labeling a luxury/luxurious product more than 5stars. The rating for the top high end luxury is 5star, eventually with an added "+". by Earl of Cruise CAPE ROYALE Luxury hotel in Capetown - courtesy Hotels.co...
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HISTORY - HAMBURG the Space Ship

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HAMBURG , HANSEATIC, stared as Britannic in ` Juggernaught ´, MAXIM GORKIY nicknamed Space Ship ts HAMBURG in DEUTSCHE ATLANTIK LINE colours - own collection, copy from a promotion broschure When HAMBURG was introduced a TV show aired with adventures in the space, their ship was the Enterprise which had a saucer shaped main section and three main arm like pillars holding the saucer as well the two engin sections. by Earl of Cruise The funnel of HAMBURG had quite a resemblance to that particular TV airship, created for STAR TREK by Gene Roddenberry . Axel Bitsch Christensen in front of the ts HAMBURG funnel - own collection, photo originaly owned by Anders Bitsch Christensen This funnel, as controversial it is and was, was only one reason why HAMBURG was nicknamed the Space Ship, but there was another reason, a real one, HAMBURG was the most spacious passenger shipp of her days. Constructing ts HAMBURG from 1966 till 1969 - own collection, copy from my bo...
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HISTORY - Traveling with airliner LZ 129 HINDENBURG was the most luxurious airtravel

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The real airliner LZ 129 HINDENBURG enabled the most luxurious airtravel for decades. Imagine, gliding through the air while the landscape or the sea below can be seen ... LZ 129 HINDENBURG marks the climax of airship construction. On May 6, 1937, the story of civilian airship ended in a tragedy. In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the largest flying object and has been with the similar sized LZ 130 GRAF ZEPPELIN II the most luxurious of all time. How this came about can be reconstructed logically, a series of fatal physics concatenations . The airship LZ 129 HINDENBURG marks the climax of airship construction. It was in its time the fastest and most exclusive traveling object between Europe and America. The challenges of the construction of the giant of the heaven were immense. by Earl of Cruise LZ 129 HINDENBURG, 1936, in Lakehurst - digital copy of a coloured cover photo, originally by Bill Schneider, published in Dan Grossman´s book ` ZEPPELIN HINDENBURG: AN ILLUSTRATED HI...
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