{"id":266,"date":"2008-02-24T22:40:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T12:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/cruising\/world-cruising-on-queen-victoria-and-queen-elizabeth2"},"modified":"2008-02-24T22:40:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T12:40:55","slug":"world-cruising-on-queen-victoria-and-queen-elizabeth2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/cruising\/world-cruising-on-queen-victoria-and-queen-elizabeth2","title":{"rendered":"World Cruising on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning the 90,000 Queen Victoria arrived in Sydney at 6:30 a.m., waking up all harbourside residents on a Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/images\/queenvictoriasydney300.jpg\" title=\"Queen Victoria in Sydney\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/images\/queenvictoriasydney300.jpg?resize=300%2C185\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"QueenVictoria in Sydney\" height=\"185\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 185px\" title=\"QueenVictoria in Sydney\" \/><\/a>morning.\u00a0\u00a0It blared its signal horn all the way to the Overseas Passenger Terminal and apparently this can be heard over 16 kilometres away.\u00a0 This is Queen Vic&#8217;s maiden voyage to Sydney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This morning Queen Victoria&#8217;s older sister QE2 arrived, again waking up harbourside residents at 6.30 a.m.\u00a0 This marks QE2&#8217;s 30th anniversary since her maiden visit to Sydney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/images\/QE2_300.jpg\" title=\"QE2, Sydney\"><\/a>At 6:30 p.m., these two\u00a0grand ladies of the ocean crossed each other at Fort Denison, sounding a Whistle Salute with their signal horns.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sydney sailors, in their traditional fashion, turned out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/images\/QE2_300.jpg\" title=\"QE2, Sydney\"><\/a>force watching these two ships manoeuvring into position and then accompanied Queen Victoria on her <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/images\/QE2_300.jpg\" title=\"QE2, Sydney\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/images\/QE2_300.jpg?resize=300%2C185\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"QE2, Sydney\" height=\"185\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 185px\" title=\"QE2, Sydney\" \/><\/a>journey\u00a0out of the harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Last year when Queen Mary 2 and QE2 rendezvoused in Sydney, the harbour was a scene of madness and traffic on the roads came to a gridlock as everyone was heading for the harbour to witness this eventful occasion.\u00a0 It was no different this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly this is QE2&#8217;s last voyage and she will be leaving the Cunard fleet to take up residence in Dubai as a floating hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning the 90,000 Queen Victoria arrived in Sydney at 6:30 a.m., waking up all harbourside residents on a Saturday morning.\u00a0\u00a0It blared its signal horn all the way to the Overseas Passenger Terminal and apparently this can be heard over 16 kilometres away.\u00a0 This is Queen Vic&#8217;s maiden voyage to Sydney.\u00a0 This morning Queen Victoria&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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