Superliners of the early 20th century, White Star Line "OLYMPIC"
CRISTOFORO COLOMBO, one of the nicest ships ever built
This post is dedicated to all the Italian followers of this blog. This past week saw an unprecedented number of pageviews from Italy, I was really pleased to notice that the post "WILLEM RUYS BECOMES ACHILLE LAURO" is the most popular post of this blog, leading by far all the posts related to the COSTA CONCORDIA's tragedy, so despite the relevance of the tragic events which obviously dominated the news not just in Italy but around the world, there is an obvious interest on Italian passenger liners and this is reassuring for me, I do believe that the most beautiful liners came out of Italy, this is why I have chosen CRISTOFORO COLOMBO for many the most elegant liner ever built as a testimony of appreciation to the great nation that Italy was and still is as far as shipping and ship building is concerned, so thank you to all my Italian followers, I will endeavour to carry on with the best possible work on this blog. Postcards of my collection
if you have ever watched a twilight zone episode "a stop in willoughby" a man wanted to escape
ReplyDeletethe pressures of the modern life, and all of the sudden he is dreaming while on his way home on a train, but in his dream he is in 1888, and finally in his dream, he gets off the train and is in 1888, he is happy and at ease finally. i love to cruise, and i say all the time, i wish i could walk through a door
on a cruise ship, and step onto the boat deck of the OLYMPIC, i look around and right away things look different but not foreign, i know where i am, but to make sure, i ask a steward on the deck, and he says " your on the OLYMPIC mid ocean, its 1922. i look up at the four brown and black funnels, hear the wind, and sound of the ocean, and the feel of the engines, i know then i am home. heaven to me would be on the OLYMPIC sailing into eternity.