But do limit the Queen Mary to its tables

Erik the red, Columbus, Vespucci, Cartier, Champlain... How do not dream to follow suit (and the aftermath) of those who crossed the Atlantic by the waves Rally New York today is in five days and indigestion has replaced the scurvy, but the road is the same, immutable, eternal. Last heir of the great liners who roamed the ocean until the 1960s, the Queen Mary 2 still offers this mythical cruise. Moored at the port of Southampton as a giant at the time of tea (345 metres long, 2 620 passengers, 1 254 crew members, 150 000 tonnes...), this ship is a tower of Babel.

The first day of the cruise, borrowing infinite corridors found a mixed clientele. Old English electric wheelchair cross bimbos in sweat. Soon in his room, can have a look at the program of the day, because days are militarily gridded. But before his luggage, the first obligation is the exercise of security, which is worth its weight in nougats. We must see these passengers to skeptical eyes, trying to be said in jackets color stabilo. The manipulation is fortunately brief and each can spin to clothes, to choose the holding of evening. Because, here, it is not question to be neglected. Passengers have come from the horizons most various, all play the game: after tea time, each will put smoking and long dress for deliciously formal dinners. They place in the Princess Grill intimate (reserved for customers of the suites) or the prodigious Britannia (more than 1 300 seats), the evening meal are a marvel of tradition and efficiency.

Broken discipline, brigades servers juggle from one table to another, distributing yorkshire pudding, cheddar soup, and other jelly of currant, concocted by the Alsatian Chief Jean-Marie Zimmermann. If it cannot do more british, nothing is yet fancy. The challenge remains to select his table without showing inappropriate: it is possible to end up with Bristol pensioners or profiteers of Ljubljana. You can see... Once a trip, the captain receives all passengers for a papal handshake and a photo of choice. Each is the tail. Follows a black and white, where of octogenarians gigolos ball (forgiveness: gentlemen host) are dancing the wives of retired disabled or lazy.

These social whirl exhausted you Take your meals in a cabin or gobergez you to the permanent self of the King's court of hotdogs, ice and hamburger. Cholesterol also crosses it the Atlantic.

But do limit the Queen Mary to its tables. You can do it all here: to immerse yourself in the jacuzzi, decrypt maps maritime to the library of 8,000 volumes, go to the movies (three sessions per day), play roulette or the Jackpot; attend a dance performance, a Conference, a piano recital; boireun Cosmopolitan to Commodore bar, a beer at the Golden Lion Pub, a cut to a Champagne Bar...

Want to escape the crowds On the Queen Mary 2, nothing more simple. Most of the rooms are equipped with balconies that plunge into the ocean. Slapped by the spray and foam, it be damaged in the vision of the aquatic immensity. While it is in the middle of the ocean, on the road, even the Titanic borrowed here is almost a century remembered. The icebergs melted but the wind is always there. The days of great zef, can walk only on the neglected bridges, with the strange feeling of being lost on a Ghost ship. The boat is 4 000 passengers and is alone in the world: vision of Opera! We think then of the other Queen Mary 2: the lining of the vessel. Where and how to live the 1,300 members of the crew It seems that they have their restaurant, their nightclub... There are so many mysteries of backdoors, forgotten.

Arrived in New York, when the head of the monster verges on the Verrazzano bridge, we realize that it has not seen in the quarter. "America is great, already," wrote the first lines of his New York Morand. What was said of the Queen Mary 2