Bart Bear's Blog

The size of the "Queen Mary 2" is most obvious when it is near some other big things. For example, when we were entering the port of Adelaide there was a cruise ship moored there. She was the "Amadea", built in 1991 and operated by the German-based Phoenix Reisen company. Amadea is fairly big, 193 m long and carrying 624 passengers and 292 crew; compare that with the QM2, 345 m long, 2,260 passengers and 1,253 crew. Amadea was on a cruise around the world and so was the QM2, in Sydney we met up with the Queen Elizabeth, also on a world cruise. When ships like these meet at a port, huge crowds come out to see them. At Adelaide the traffic was so heavy that it took us 25 minutes to travel the 3 km from where we met up with friends back to the ship just before sailing time. If you are on a cruise always allow an extra hour to get back to the ship, it is embarrassing if you are left behind.

Labels: boats, cruising