There is a column in USA Today that Beatrice Muller, a 89-year-old widow, has lived on the Cunard’s QE2 for the last nine years. She has booked back-to-back cruises since before the millennium! Apparetnly after her husband died, she decided she would travel, and as she aged it became more reasonable to just sail than move to a retirement home. Think about it… all her meals are cooked for her, her room is cleaned, her laundry taken care of, there are daily activities, new people coming and going all the time…. I can certainly think of a worse way to retire (if you have the means, that is).

The issue is the QE2 is about to be retired, and she will have to ‘move’. Shall she move to the new Queen Mary 2? The massive Freedom of the Seas? I’ll let you know when I find out.

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