Up bright and early, breakfasted and onto the bus for the ride into Cologne. This is a theme on this cruise. The ship docks just long enough for us to disgorge us and while we ride the bus into town and do the excursion it catches up to us – arriving about the same time […]
Today was a split day. We docked upstream a bit at Kinderdijk and set out on excursions.The big draw at this stop are the historic windmills – a UNESCO World Heritage site. Cheryl and I have seen this before so while Tim and Diane learned about windmill technology we headed out on a visit to
We were up early (OK, when the alarm went off at 7:00 Cheryl pointed out that we should have set it for earlier. But we still had our suitcases out in the hall and were down to breakfast at the appointed 7:30 (ish). Tim and Diane were there ahead of us. Actually they were up
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in 1898, in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. His father (a hydrogolic engineer) wanted his son to become an architect. However he was drawn to printmaking. His career as an artist started in Italy where the landscapes inspired him. Returning to The Netherlands at age 37 he missed the landscapes of Italy
NOTE: This post contains a whole lot of pictures of art and no much else. You will lose little if any of the story of our trip if you skip this post. We certainly won’t be offended. Tuesday afternoon we visited the Mauritshuis Gallery. Housed in a house dating from the 17th century, the gallery
First, Go back to Day 3 and 4. Check out the photos (and a new video of the flight plan). We finally got phones to communicate (pro tip: When all else fails ‘put their heads together.’ It actually works.) Second, This is a heave museum day. Picking the best of what we say there are
-=-=-=-=-=-Before we begin, a note: We haven’t been able to get AirDrop to work between Diane’s phone and mine. When we do I will be updating this post with more photos, particularly of T and D. Now on with the show.-=-=-=-=-=- We cleared passport control, picked up our checked bags, and wandered thru the “Nothing
Today was travel day – the big one!. Deegs were up and off to the Pocatello Airport at 0-dark:30.Fortunately the fires were under control and the power was back on.Everyone was boarded early so the pilot asked (as you do) “Y’all mind if we leave now?”So they did, and had to wait in Salt Lake
Last night we were in bed by 9:00 so it was a very long night. 0400 I was awake, wide awake. I managed to stay in bed, occasionally dozing lightly, until the alarm went off at 0600. That’s when their breakfast service starts. So we were up and down to join the other half-dozen early-birds.
It seems that it’s never easy to actually leave. And while today wasn’t particularly difficult it began a series of events that, over the course of several days, will eventually, in the fullness of time, GLW-CDR see us board a plane for Europe. So the first Road day saw us begin by heading to Malad.