The 1952 North Cape Cruise - 26 / 27 July 1952

Le Havre and France

LE HAVRE is the traditional gateway to glittering Paris, to fabulous France and all the Continent. On the North Cape Cruise you arrive at the height of Europe's season.

Linger if you like to enjoy moments in Paris, to leisurely visit the lowland countries, forested West Germany, romantic Austria, beautiful Switzerland, intriguing Italy, the Riviera, Spain, Portugal… wherever your travel fancy leads you.

If you wish to prolong your summer holiday, American Express will arrange Extension Tours starting from Le Havre or Southampton and timed to connect with later westbound sailings of Cunard liners.

Or if you choose to stay over in Europe but prefer to travel independently, American Express travel specialists on board the Caronia throughout the cruise will give advice and helpful suggestions.

They will help you plan your route at no extra cost and will prepare a special itinerary to meet your individual requirements. They will secure your transportation and hotel accommodations, arrange for sightseeing trips with guides as well as a Uniformed Interpreter service to assist you at railway stations, air terminals and important frontier points.

You will be provided with a book of tickets and coupons covering all services included in the arrangements and will know in advance what your trip will cost.

Southampton and England

SOUTHAMPTON marks the end of your North Cape Cruise, although return passage to America on one of eleven great Cunarders is included in the cruise fare. Yet Southampton need not be the end of your summer holiday! American Express has arranged such appealing tours as:

• a seven-day motor coach trip through the Shakespeare country, several cathedral towns, cities of historic interest and London
• a ten-day tour visiting Devon, Cornwall, the English Riviera and Stonehenge with three full days in London
• a two-week trip through London and the Shakespeare country, Holland, Belgium and five full days in Paris visiting Versailles and Fontainebleau
• a month's Grand Tour of Europe visiting London and the Shakespeare country, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, the Italian and French Rivieras and Paris

Au Revoir Fellow Cruisers

It is with regret that these last words of farewell are prepared for this last page. Before closing up the books on this most, we sincerely trust, pleasant and thrilling odysseys, we cannot refrain from stating what a wonderful experience it has been to share the adventures of this trip with you and to give to you, in whatever measure we were capable of, the fruits of our experience, whether ship-wise or shore-wise.

Adventures are still the greatest human joy! No home without the adventure of travel from and back to it would seem sweet. As a civiliser and educator, travel is what it will always be, the world's most masterful and sympathetic teacher; its most beguiling entertainer and its most magnetic leader.

Travel isn't merely going somewhere under conditions of renewed health, pleasure and entertainment. Its greatest value is in returning with an abundant store of well-worth knowledge, memories, new friends, and fresh views of the living world.

We sincerely feel that you were one of the finest group of cruisers it has been our pleasure to be associated with. Your co-operation, understanding, and especially your interest in the shipboard activities was most gratifying. Our heartfelt thanks for this is extended to you.

On behalf of Captain Thelwell, the Officers and Crew of the RMS Caronia, Mr. Hennesey and the Cruise Staff, we all most reluctantly say to you each individually “Au Revoir” but not “Goodbye” and may we be shipmates again in the not too distant future.
THE CRUISE STAFF.