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Continuing on the Green Line House with awnings Architecture Little power boat Willow near the Museum stop so I decided that the thing she would most like to see was the Van Gogh museum, so we got off at that stop (which was about half way around) about 1030. We saw our friends from the...

26 June 2009 Today we are going to be doing the hop-on-hop-off canal boat cruise of Amsterdam. This is mostly photos so it will be multiple entry. This is the First entry View from our window We slept well and got up late. I figured the hop-on-hop-off canal trips wouldn't start too early...

Taking the elevator down We had skipped lunch and when we went out to the front of the hotel and there was a quite lively scene with people eating and drinking and music and all kinds of stuff. Five Bells and people eating outside From our dinner table B wanted pizza, so we went to the...

Views from the train From the train We went the wrong direction in Amsterdam too and ended up at the back of the station instead of the front where we could have gotten a cab. One of the cabs that had come to pick up specific people called another cab for me, and we did get to the hotel...

25 June 2009 View from our room When I checked in yesterday, the receptionist told me I could have breakfast at the hotel for €18 instead of 20. Since I had not had an opportunity to stock up at the buffet on the ship because of our early debarkation, I decided to go ahead and do that. Canal...

We went down to the restaurant again at 6 and met my internet friends from Virtual Tourist. Pieter set up the meeting. We met at our hotel (The Golden Tulip) and had a drink with them. Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Jan VINK Anke-Thea Then Anke-Thea and Roy went ahead and found us a place to eat. When...

The taxi driver took us back to the Rotterdam Tiny car Drawbridge Lipton Iced Tea ad Granddaughter walking in We were back at the hotel by 11:00 and we had lunch at the hotel restaurant (called Water) so we could charge it to the room. Lunch buffet The restaurant looked out on the...

My granddaughter on a rented bike Her photos of her handlebars and the path She did ask me for her juice which she had rejected. Her picture of herself Path along the top of the dykes Different type of windmill ' Dogs on lead Windmill door Side of the sail Powering the sail But...

B rented a bicycle for about $5.00 and was quite happy about that. I paid the € 2 for her to see the mill that was open Granddaughter going to see the windmill Walkway to the windmill Wooden shoes Old fashioned lamp, Clock and cupboard Bed and Pottery Stove Insides of the mill...

We went back down to the cab Village near Kinderdijk and he drove us to Kinderdijk which is a Windmill Museum The cab driver gave us each a juice box, which B didn't want to take, so I took both of them. I had thought we might have a boat ride, but we were there too early for a boat trip...

24 June 2009 The Rotterdam docks in Rotterdam I asked for early embarkation. We got luggage tags marked Pink 5, with a time of 0700 to 0730. Granddaughter's suitcase (and foot) I asked for breakfast at 5:30 to 6, and for a wake-up call at 5:15. Breakfast again came before the wake-up call...

The next time I was in the Netherlands I didn't ended in Amsterdam instead of starting there. I started by disembarking a Holland American cruise ship in Rotterdam. Thi swas my third grandchild trip and I was with my 12 year old granddaughter. 23 June 2009 was a sea day and mostly connected...

in the summer of 1964, I made another solo trip to meet my husband's ship. He was a pilot and flew S2Fs (antisubmarine planes) off the aircraft carrier Intrepid Partly done needlpoint of a plane landing on a carrier The_planes_that_Bob_flew Aircraft carrier The Intrepid was supposed to...

After we left Belgium, we took the train to Amsterdam. Rosalie Ann with her paraphernalia in RR station in Europe Railroad station Train approaching hundreds of small gardens from the train Windmill near Amsterdam Mint Tower - 1950 - Amsterdam Horse drawn carriage My mother was...

In the summers of 1946 and 1947 as soon as school was out we would drive up through New Jersey (and visit our cousins) and go to Cape Cod. We would rent a room or rooms. Daddy was a member of the Marine Biological Lab so he would do research. We would eat in the Mess Hall and in the morning...

In the years after our trip to Europe in 1950 there were more than a few transits and two actual visits. Unfortunately I have very few photos to remember those trips. In 1953 we drove from Maryland to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and across the George Washington Bridge to Connecticut and...

I was born in November 1937. My first Pass through New York was in 1939, when my parents drove through NYC up to Woods Hole to spend the summer, and then drove back. I was almost 2 In the fall of 1939 my parents left me with my grandparents and visited the World's Fair in New York. In...

barge tug Tug Red buoy storm clouds storm clouds over the river burning off gas Dinner was a Belgian dinner I had the Belgian endive salad with glazed walnuts and blue cheese, asparagus soup and mahi mahi Belgium endive and walnut salad Wild Rice and Tropical Salsa (in the Mahi...

Now to get back to the ship. War Memorial - Antwerp City Park Boula theater I had the foresight to have the plan of the day which had the address where the ship would dock, but that was a long dock and he kept going to the edge and the ship would not be there. Hetsteen - youth theater...