Bart Bear's Blog

Here's a photo of Mum and me at the very top deck of the "Queen Mary 2". We were trying to find a place where we could do a "Kate & Leo" pose like in the Titanic movie, but all of the very front deck is out of bounds to passengers. So we went up to the highest open deck we could find. It is not a very big deck, just a small platform near the big indoor pool and one of the radar domes. From here you can see all that is happening on the sports decks, except that on this day it was cold and windy so nobody was doing anything up there. However, we got our wind-blown, lean into the wind, shot (unfortunately, the wind was behind us). The photo gives you one more example of the size of the Queen, this spot is just about at the middle of the top deck; it is a long way to either end.
The bottom photo shows the extra care that Cunard puts in to the comfort of its small passengers. In our cabin (sorry, stateroom) there was a shelf just the right width for small critters to sit on, and it had a rail around it just the right height to stop the critters sliding off in rough weather. Obviously the designers of the ship had small bears in mind when they did the cabin layout. Scruffy and Milkshake spent a lot of time there; they could watch TV and see out of the balcony door. I preferred to get out and see the rest of the ship. It is a gross misinterpretation of fact to suggest that I am just a bit too big around the tummy to fit comfortably behind the rail.

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