We went overnight to Terneuzen - actually we started at dinner time and there were waves crashing against the windows in the dining room which is on the lowest deck.
25 April 2016
I woke up about 4:30 and looked at the bow camera and we were here. We are beside a lock. The captain has decided that the waves and wind in the North Sea make it too dangerous for us to actually go through the lock and go to Middleburg (this is a river boat and not an ocean going vessel after all), so we are staying in Terneuzen all day today. It is still rainy and cold
Lock
AmaStella across from us
The expeditions today were to Ghent, Bruges and Middleburg, and I decided not to go on any of them. They are all walking tours and it is really bad weather for a scooter - it is too much trouble to go to just to have a shopping opportunity. So we had a nice restful day on the ship
Fruit on the buffet
At lunch, the people who just went to Ghent came back (after a cold and rainy walk) and we had
lentil soup
Caronade Flamade
Table at the end of the dining room and waitress going into the kitchen
And then Bob went to the ice cream section of the buffet and got ice cream for us for dessert
Bob at the ice cream table
Elevator sign on the ship
In the afternoon we had tea (sandwiches and cakes).
For dinner I had the
foie gras pate
and then because I didn't want French Onion soup (which is often too salty) or the cream of fennel soup, I had two appetizers - for the second one I got the peach cocktail.
Peach Cocktail - sparkling wine
Then for the main course I had
Spinach quiche
Bob's fish dinner
Dessert
We left for Willemstad. It seemed like they had trouble getting the engines started. But we finally got underway. Bob thought that the injectors were clogged or something.
Red and white sculpture
Yellow and black striped barge
Then when I got up to go to the bathroom in the night, I looked at the bow camera picture (which they have in infrared for in the dark), I would have sworn we were on a collision course with another ship or something, but we didn't hit it whatever it was.
25 April 2016
I woke up about 4:30 and looked at the bow camera and we were here. We are beside a lock. The captain has decided that the waves and wind in the North Sea make it too dangerous for us to actually go through the lock and go to Middleburg (this is a river boat and not an ocean going vessel after all), so we are staying in Terneuzen all day today. It is still rainy and cold
Lock
AmaStella across from us
The expeditions today were to Ghent, Bruges and Middleburg, and I decided not to go on any of them. They are all walking tours and it is really bad weather for a scooter - it is too much trouble to go to just to have a shopping opportunity. So we had a nice restful day on the ship
Fruit on the buffet
At lunch, the people who just went to Ghent came back (after a cold and rainy walk) and we had
lentil soup
Caronade Flamade
Table at the end of the dining room and waitress going into the kitchen
And then Bob went to the ice cream section of the buffet and got ice cream for us for dessert
Bob at the ice cream table
Elevator sign on the ship
In the afternoon we had tea (sandwiches and cakes).
For dinner I had the
foie gras pate
and then because I didn't want French Onion soup (which is often too salty) or the cream of fennel soup, I had two appetizers - for the second one I got the peach cocktail.
Peach Cocktail - sparkling wine
Then for the main course I had
Spinach quiche
Bob's fish dinner
Dessert
We left for Willemstad. It seemed like they had trouble getting the engines started. But we finally got underway. Bob thought that the injectors were clogged or something.
Red and white sculpture
Yellow and black striped barge
Then when I got up to go to the bathroom in the night, I looked at the bow camera picture (which they have in infrared for in the dark), I would have sworn we were on a collision course with another ship or something, but we didn't hit it whatever it was.
- Next entry in the series 'Go to Amsterdam First (1950, 1965, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2022)': Visiting a Belgium War Cemetery in the Willemstad in 2016
- Previous entry in the series 'Go to Amsterdam First (1950, 1965, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2022)': Docking in Nijmegen 2016
