Monday was the big day, Stuart's Birthday at Sea! The day started with breakfast in bed, then the presents started to arrive, a beautiful tropical flower display, vouchers for the spa, a Queen Elizabeth teddy bear and some limited edition Cunard commemorative books. Stuart had been wearing his birthday present already, a diamond ring that he got on the Queen Victoria. We met all our world traveller friends in the Garden Lounge for afternoon tea with a special...

Queen Elizabeth arrived in San Pedro, Los Angeles on Saturday and many of the friends we made during the last two weeks left us to head home. Our waiters Marik and Alexandria also left on this sectors, we were sad but happy that we will meet our new bunch of shipmates on our voyage to Sydney. Los Angeles covers such a large area and our time was short so we headed north to Hollywood, our first stop was the Chinese Theatre and Pavement of the Stars. Colin Firth...