The last world cruise of Queen Elizabeth 2 by Ivana Bruderova

It was 40 years ago when the QE 2 leave the coast of British Islands to make her global voyage for the first time. Now we can say the time took nothing from her charm and beauty. Queen Elizabeth 2 is undoubtedly the most famous, or one of the most famous cruise ships of the world. Last Sunday it was for the last time the passengers get on board before her final voyage. Residents of the southern English port city of Southampton and all fans of this magnificent ship could watch the QE 2 departs on her last cruise. With fireworks and fame as belongs to her. Her operator Carnival sold her last year in November to Istithmar, tourism company in Dubai World, for 50 million pounds. After her last cruise she will be turned to a five-star hotel at a specially pier on The Palm Jumeirah which is the largest man-made island and there is one more reason to confident it to be special. On The Palm Jumeirah is situated only one seven-star hotel of the world. The Queen Elizabeth 2 is 963-feet (294-metre) long and 70.000 tonnes weights ship which can carry up 1,778 passengers with about 1000 members of crew. Who once saw her, will always remember. The Queen Elizabeth 2 was ship with her own history. During her 25 world cruises she crossed the Atlantic more than 800 times and carried more than 2 millions passengers in a real luxury, of course with the real expensive tickets. If someone had been on all of her voyages, he would travel 5.5 million nautical miles, the same as to travel to the moon and back for the 13 times. At the same time as QE 2, her sister ship Queen Victoria leave Southampton for her first world cruise. Both will sail together to New York across the Atlantic Ocean.

by Ivana Bruderova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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