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On the way back through the North Sea on the QM2 we passed the oldest passenger ship...100 years old. As described by the first officer on the QM2. I'll try digging up her name as I missed it on the "tannoy". I'll post pics asap. Just got home so unpacking. She was apparently headed to meet up with the Waverley. Choppy sea and she was "moving" a bit. Several passengers up on deck as we passed. What voyage were you on ?
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Queen Mary2. Southampton round trip....Norway, Hamburg, Zerbrugge ( diverted to Le Havre).
Been there before but always enjoyable. 50th anniversary celebration.
Troll Road trip from Alesund was great. Impressive road for driving, our bus driver was great!
Visited Belsen on an organised trip. Very humbling.
Missed Ypres battlefield due to change in port.
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Queen Mary2. Southampton round trip....Norway, Hamburg, Zerbrugge ( diverted to Le Havre).
Been there before but always enjoyable. 50th anniversary celebration.
Troll Road trip from Alesund was great. Impressive road for driving, our bus driver was great!
Visited Belsen on an organised trip. Very humbling.
Missed Ypres battlefield due to change in port. Nice trip around and a pilgrimage to a Gestapo Camp is always a totally humbling eye opener and reminder of how evil so called humans can be - a lot like Israel now, the irony of this is beyond belief.
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The camp hasn't been restored. A museum has been built and it contains many photos of the victims. No huts or buildings rebuilt. There are monuments and gravestones for several family members, including Anne and her sister Margot Frank
There are many mass graves preserved with from 800 to 5000 victims.
Belsen was the main central camp with many nearby camps.
The evil from back then is being repeated. People and groups with the power to put their ideology into practice are still doing so.
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Thanks for posting the pics Richard, I'm currently glancing over at my model steam launch & thinking I really MUST take it out again one day Happy Birthday Jon, you're just steaming along nicely now  Thanks Richard  ![[Linked Image]](https://www.tm-img.com/images/2026/09/06/Card.md.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Jon! 
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The camp hasn't been restored. A museum has been built and it contains many photos of the victims. No huts or buildings rebuilt. There are monuments and gravestones for several family members, including Anne and her sister Margot Frank
There are many mass graves preserved with from 800 to 5000 victims.
Belsen was the main central camp with many nearby camps.
The evil from back then is being repeated. People and groups with the power to put their ideology into practice are still doing so. Being of Polish Jewish stock I shall never unsee the glass cabinets full of spectacles and shoes of children in Auschwitz - don't ever ask me to forgive the Krauts as the simple fact is they are easily led and to this day love a uniform. They had destroyed my Fathers family before his eyes so he walked to France, hitched a ride across the channel on a French boat (even then they could be bought for a bottle of scotch) and fronted up at the nearest RAF Station letting them know he wanted to fly a Spitfire and kill Krauts as he was 16 and had already learnt to fly in a Jungmeister ironically in Poland so he got in a Tiger Moth and showed them how it should be flown to the absolute limit side slipping his way in to a three pointer. His dreams were realised many times over although the pain would never heal for him I'm sure but he thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience and flew up until his untimely death at 64 having instructed hundreds of pupils as a CFI of two Norfolk Flying Groups. So good luck with the AfD a little enlightenment for the unknowing..
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