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Article: King of the world
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 13, 2002
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Before Victoria bagged the title, Posh used to mean one thing:
port out, starboard home, an acronym for the preferred cabin choice
of the sophisticated 19th-century Anglo-Indian seafarer. A century
and a bit on and there's no longer a need for such distinctions:
travel doesn't get much more posh than the world's first ocean-going
luxury resort, no matter which side of the ship you're sleeping on.
A concept dreamt up by Knut Kloster of Royal Viking Line and
Norwegian Cruise Lines (and of the shipping family that pioneered
cruise holidays in the 1960s), the World left its Norwegian shipyard
for the first time on 2 May this year, plotting a course first to
Cannes (for the film festival, ...
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