While the blog is described as being postcards you can't send anymore there isn't actually anything to stop you posting these, you're just not likely to be able to visit them.
This post mark on the hand is obsolete.
Also, in a first for this blog I can tell you exactly who sent it. It was my dad on our first trip on the ship in 1988. It was a memorable experience not least because there was a none fatal stabbing on board among the kitchen staff. Our second trip a few years later was no less eventful with rumours of yellow fever on board and a BBC helicopter overhead filming segments for Good Morning with Anne and Nick. Despite all of that, I did have a lovely time on board.
The QE2 was in service from 1969 to 2008 , most of this time as an ocean liner, the flag ship of the Cunard line but she did also serve in Falklands War.
She had everything a passenger could need including 5 restaurants, a number of swimming pools, a cinema, casino and hospital. In her 40 year service history she carried over 2.5 million passenger, logged over 5 million miles, rescued passengers from Antilles which had run aground, received a bomb threat and encountered a hurricane.
Her farewell voyage was in 2008, during which time she met with the two other Cunard Queens, The Queen Victoria and the Queen Mary this being the last time this would happen. Unsurprisingly, I have a postcard of the occasion.
Her final voyage was on 26th November 2008 after which she was handed over to her new owners Istithmar in Dubai.
Today, despite campaigns to bring her back to the UK, she is still docked in Dubai with a question mark over her future.
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