| Norway Farewell Transatlantic 2001 | Day
16 |
Comforting words from an old ally.
While others linger in lines
to debark, I continue my documentation, wondering what I will have missed
when finally I leave the ship.
a pleasure dome
Front and center of Windward's long wall, the nuclear symbol.
... places set for lunch
a grand descent nonetheless
familiar funnel shapes in the workmanly confines of Havre
P&O Ferries' new Pride of Portsmouth, the funnel a lonely trace of
ship styling atop a pile of "rationalised" interior spaces.
Read
about her and sister on the company's site.
for our last boarding, a simple aluminum tunnel
Inaccessible, enchanting: the aesthetic of le France lingers
indomitable as a crew-only area on Norway.
taken without hope of coherence
throngs of onlookers on the breakwater,
and the odd flash from a camera.
Steady, old boy ...
A loving nation bids her adieu, for approximately 48 hours.
I went below to rally Lisa, down hard with a cold, for the very last dinner.
I had been too busy enjoying
the meals to bother much with snapshots,
but then realized how fond I was of my tablemates.
The editor, aglow with happiness
to have enjoyed so many good meals
with these new shipboard friends
poses are called for
top
Count the silver: my last chance to wonder if I will ever
use them all.
after decks aglow, a final farewell
sheer
and suitcases; aft one last time down Viking Deck.
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