Today (April 27th) I found our bill under the door had a charge for alcohol on it and we don't drink. (The alcohol charge turned out to be a mis-typed room number.) I was also agitated because Bob was not getting ready to have breakfast at 7 and I couldn't find my sweater (which turned out to be on the bottom of the closet).
View of the bow camera
We were going to see the tulips today and I wanted to be on time- the whole reason for the cruise was to see tulips and I had picked a time which I thought would be in the middle of the season so that no matter if the season was early or late we would still see tulips.
Today is Kings Day and everyone wears orange. I didn't think I had anything orange until I realized that the lining of my coat was orange. So I put on my sweaters, and over that I put on my raincoat, and then I turned my coat inside out and wore it that way. When Bob got our color for our bus (yellow), he thought he saw the bus outside but it turned out to be a Viking cruise ship bus. Raul the cruise manager said for me to get on the first bus, and the first bus we found was orange. So we got on. This turned out to be the bus of the big group of a travel agent from California. But we just stayed there.
Large Dutch house
Fields of Flowers in the rain
Rain and rainbow on the way to the gardens
The guide was pretty good (I think the travel agent for this group poaches all the good guides) and we lucked out in that it rained fairly hard, but we were on the bus then (both going and coming) and was mostly sunny while we were in the gardens.
Ticket
Bob's photo of me with my orange coat (inside out)
The guide took us through the gardens (although one place had stepping stones
Stepping Stones among the Tulips
and she wanted me to go on the grass which I didn't want to do with the ground as wet as it was - so I just went around on the road to the other side.
Flagstone pathway
Winding paths
Dolphin fountain
Paths in the garden
After we left the guide, I went and ordered tulips for everyone who could grow them. I was disappointed in the bulbs when they came - some of them were rotted
White tulips
Pink and white multiple petaled tulips
World Peace tulips
Large cupped daffodil
Tulip double early
Single Early Tulips
Red. pink and white tulips
View of the bow camera
We were going to see the tulips today and I wanted to be on time- the whole reason for the cruise was to see tulips and I had picked a time which I thought would be in the middle of the season so that no matter if the season was early or late we would still see tulips.
Today is Kings Day and everyone wears orange. I didn't think I had anything orange until I realized that the lining of my coat was orange. So I put on my sweaters, and over that I put on my raincoat, and then I turned my coat inside out and wore it that way. When Bob got our color for our bus (yellow), he thought he saw the bus outside but it turned out to be a Viking cruise ship bus. Raul the cruise manager said for me to get on the first bus, and the first bus we found was orange. So we got on. This turned out to be the bus of the big group of a travel agent from California. But we just stayed there.
Large Dutch house
Fields of Flowers in the rain
Rain and rainbow on the way to the gardens
The guide was pretty good (I think the travel agent for this group poaches all the good guides) and we lucked out in that it rained fairly hard, but we were on the bus then (both going and coming) and was mostly sunny while we were in the gardens.
Ticket
Bob's photo of me with my orange coat (inside out)
The guide took us through the gardens (although one place had stepping stones
Stepping Stones among the Tulips
and she wanted me to go on the grass which I didn't want to do with the ground as wet as it was - so I just went around on the road to the other side.
Flagstone pathway
Winding paths
Dolphin fountain
Paths in the garden
After we left the guide, I went and ordered tulips for everyone who could grow them. I was disappointed in the bulbs when they came - some of them were rotted
White tulips
Pink and white multiple petaled tulips
World Peace tulips
Large cupped daffodil
Tulip double early
Single Early Tulips
Red. pink and white tulips
- Next entry in the series 'Go to Amsterdam First (1950, 1965, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2022)': Kitchen Garden Tulips (and other flowers) - 2016
- Previous entry in the series 'Go to Amsterdam First (1950, 1965, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2022)': "Driving" to Dordrecht- 2016
