I’ve lived in Cowes for over seven years but I’ll always be a Londoner.
So imagine my surprise when I heard 694 passengers on board Azamara Journey got a great view of the O2 dome when they sailed up the Thames last Wednesday.
I almost toppled out of the crow’s nest on the roof of my house with shock.
The jammy buggers.
The 30,277 ton cruise cruise ship is one of the biggest vessels to negotiate the Thames barrier and made Greenwich pier its home for two nights.
Then they told me Edie Bornstein, the cruise line’s vice president of sales and marketing, spent her first evening in London watching Rod Stewart perform ‘Sailing’ on the O2 stage.
It kinda made me glad I hadn’t burnt down the former Millennium Dome in Greenwich when I was the first person to enjoy an Havana inside it, not long after it opened.
The 593ft long Azamara Journey was about halfway through a 14-night Western Europe cruise which left Barcelona on May 23. It’s now en route for Copenhagen.
The ship also has more verandas than many of its rivals, so the view of London from the Thames must have been magnificent.
Bloody hell. I could taken some friends and family with me for a right-old knees-up in the old home town.
Next time you’re planning to sail into London, Azamara, can you give me a bell (ship’s or phone) and I’ll be up your gangplank like a retarded rat in a storm.
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9 Comments
Jun 04 2010
13:13
Well , if you lit up in =2 now James, you would be hanging off that Crow’s Nest!!! Wish i could have been with you when you did light up with my Spanish Fortunas and set fire to the place from Day 1!!
Jun 04 2010
14:46
I’ve got some photo’s of the Journey against the London skyline to add to this post which I hope to get on before I go home for the weekend. watch this space!!
Jun 04 2010
15:04
Nice if they could get the Oasis of the Seas up to Henley so passengers can watch the Royal Regatta at the end of June. They’d have to take a few bridges down, remove a few weirs, and lower the river bed in places, but it would be worth it.
Jun 04 2010
15:18
Maybe they could lower the Thames, Milton, but I doubt it…
Jun 04 2010
16:51
Photo’s uploaded. Enjoy.
Jun 04 2010
18:30
wow that looks amazing! like you haven’t lived in london now for 8 years-but it will alaways have a draw for me.what awonderful way to see it-very jealous-it’s got to be the way to travel!
Jun 08 2010
7:27
Hi Jim
Great pics of the old home town, even though i left thirty years ago i still consider myself a Londoner, we must have a drink in the Pauline Arms or the Crooked Billet one day.
Regards Jacko.
Jun 09 2010
15:06
What a good idea, Jacko. Mine’s a pint of Best. What are you having?
Jun 16 2010
19:58
Don’t go to London myself but if I could travel up by ship like that all the time with the views and not have to do the underground, I’d be there regularly – guess you don’t get flying flying cows in the capital………..