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4 minutes ago, arzz said:
@sailingdutchy thank you for the beautiful illustrations of our tour in Quingdao!
Wishes and prayers for the good health of everyone. Such difficult times.
Thank you for a lot of very nice descriptions of a large part of our day also @arzz !
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Good morning to all our CC friends , hope you all had a very nice Christmas ours was very quiet and peaceful but we are now waiting for our DD’s family to come for a few days from Rye , New York , we have not been able to hug them all for a long time .We have been to Qingdao while on the Volendam in 2017 and had a very exciting day which started off early in the morning with a visit to the Tsingtao Beer Brewery for a tour and a tasting . The brewery had been started by a German company in 1903 so the beer was very good and tasted close to our very good Heineken Beer. A number of years ago it was taken over by the Chinese .
This was before 10 am ……….
Even the manhole covers advertise the brewery
We than went into the old town of Qingdao to go through some of the old merchant homes also of German heritage to see the history of Old Qingdao
From the “old Town “ we saw in the distance the New Chinese skyscrapers
After a very nice lunch we went to the coast to visit a beautiful old pier
At low tide all kinds of people were looking for some edible morsels
DW had to try out one of the rental bicycles ………..
Lots and lots of offices and high-rise apartments
Time to go back “Home” after a very nice day with our small group the captain will be waiting for us
Tony 🎅🤶Just in case we are very busy here with our family we would like to wish you all Good Fortune and Good Health for the New Year and of coarse one or more cruises on a BHB ! Happy New Year !!-
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7 hours ago, Vict0riann said:
And one other we're not sure of - is this Captain Carstens?
Could be him Ann @VictOriann looking at the picture of current captains from Captain Alberts blog .
No idea who the other Captain is , went through the current list
is it possibly Captain Friso Kramer gezegd Freher ?
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21 hours ago, Copper10-8 said:
"Bitterballen" are very similar to "Kroketten" as far as making them from scratch. It's been my experience that both are made on board by the sous-chefs and asst. chefs on a regular basis for gatherings, crew lunches in the "Dirty Mess," along with "frikandellen" and other Dutch delicacies with the caveat that all this was "pre-Covid"
https://www.thespruceeats.com/beef-bitterballen-recipe-1129015
Hope you don’t mind me showing some of our experiences in the Grand Dutch Cafe John , I believe the croquettes , bitterballen and maybe also the frikandellen are from the Best and most Famous maker in Amsterdam , Van Dobben , I don’t think they are made on board ship . I thought I had heard that from one of the servers in the Grand Dutch Cafe.When we are on one of the Pinnacle Class ships we usually spend quite a bit of time there and of coarse have to try all the Dutch goodies . Uitsmijters , Appel Taart , Flammetjes , Dutch Pea soup etc etc
And , this is the way to eat a herring the Dutch way
DW forgot to roll it through the unions .....This was the wonderful Grand Dutch Cafe team on the Koningsdam in 2019 and due to the Covid they might have moved on to positions in the better hotels or restaurants in The Netherlands or Belgium
We wish you a fantastic cruise John and Maria , and don't forget after one of those Bossche Bollen you have to climb on the bike again .........Tony 🎅-
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1 hour ago, Copper10-8 said:
Merry Christmas and peace to all and thanks for the bon voyages! Got our Covid results electronically sent overnight and, as expected, they were negatory on both 🧐, so we will be good to go to tomorrow enroute to the city of the Padres and K-dam. Looking very much forward to it and a "broodje kroket" for lunch in the Grand Dutch Cafe 😊
Ja lekker he jongen Kroketje , poffertjes en Bosche Bollen ! I can taste it already !
Enjoy your cruise !
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A Merry Christmas to all the Dailyites , I am very late to this party you are already on page 5 , we thank all of our CC friends for your good wishes and in turn we wish all of you and your families a wonderful Holiday .
It sure does not feel like Christmas here there is no snow on the ground this year , it is rainy and foggy , so different from many , many other years .
Health and Peace to the World !
Tony and Martha 🎅🤶
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We are hoping to cruise on the Koningsdam and get on board on the 2nd of February but probably the latest test we can get in Canada before we fly out is a little more than 2 days prior to embarkation . I tried looking for testing in San Diego at local Pharmacies but it is either very far from our hotel or impossible to prebook specially as a Canadian .Can anybody tell me that we can possibly book at the terminal before we get on board . I thought that HAL does not do that anymore in February.Thank you for any help with this , much appreciatedTony
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We did not get an email from HAL after we returned from our 24 days on the Eurodam in October .
Maybe I should have purchased more FCD's
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Great to hear from you John @Copper10-8, we have missed you posting on CC and glad to hear that you are doing well and cruising again .We wish you a wonderful cruise even if at first it will feel so different when you get on board during this difficult time , but than like we found out in October on the Eurodam in the Mediterranean it still is so wonderful to cruise again and now we hope that we can get on the Koningsdam in February for a cruise to Hawaii .We look forward to your commentaries and your experiences , Merry Christmas , Stay Safe and Enjoy !Tony 😁
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Have a wonderful cruise Rich @richwmn a so well deserved voyage after keeping all of us so well informed and together with the DAILY NEWS for so long specially during this difficult time with the virus doing its rounds . THANK YOU !
Tony 😍
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5 minutes ago, grapau27 said:
Thank you for posting excellent photos.
Graham.
Thanks very much for that Graham , I try to do and send my best for all to see .
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" " We've been to Haifa twice, both times on the Prinsendam. The first time I was recovering from noro and under quarantine, so didn't go ashore, but then I did go ashore in 2016 - I imagine @sailingdutchy will post some pictures. It was a very interesting day. Five years ago seems like a lifetime now! " "
I was just ahead of you Ann @VictOriann I see but forgot to ask your permission for showing a few personal pictures , hope I did OK . And YES is was a wonderful day but a lot of walking !
Tony 😍
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Good morning to all , Bon Voyage to Rich and good thoughts and wishes for all my Cruise Critic friends on this Daily get together .Wow Rich you are really keeping me busy this is now the 3rd or 4th day in a row that I really need to look up some nice pictures and dig into my memory of what we did on October 24th , 2016 when we docked in Haifa , Israel .We arrived there thanks to Captain Jeroen Schuchmann while on the Prinsendam with blue skies .Our friend Paula had organized a small group tour on a mini bus to go to Tel Aviv - Jaffa and Caesarea which is a full dayand first drove to the top of the hill to see the gorgeous Baha’i Gardens.
The Elegant Explorer .......The Prinsendam !
From there we drove to the Caesarea’s National Park with the Roman Theater
Hey , I see some very good friends here , Ann and Pat and their DD Cathy and Dear Martha
From there we walked to the Caesarea Harbour built by King Herod and which area is still being excavated for additional buildings and treasures . At the time King Herod build this large harbour and started this large Port .
The public bath house
From there we went to Tel Aviv where we saw the spot where the former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin was murdered in 1995
Our next stop was going through the Gardens of Jaffa for a nice long ….......walking tour and going over the Wishing Bridge
We will have to ask Cathy if her wishes came true
Beautiful beaches
Time to get back to port , captain is waiting he is ready to leave by the time we got back ……........ plus I now need my 3rd cup of coffee and these are enough pictures for today
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2 minutes ago, StLouisCruisers said:
Correct Tony. I noticed immediately it was the same date we were there. And I know Jacqui and Jose were on the ship for the first of our B2B cruises. We always had a great time on the Prinsendam. It was a warm and cozy ship, wasn't it? Many happy memories aboard that vessel.
Yes we had the pleasure to cruise twice on the Prinsendam and they were both wonderful , we were able to see so many ports that are not possible to visit anymore with the larger ships and the crews were always the best !
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3 hours ago, StLouisCruisers said:
Thanks to all for the great photos today of your time spent in the port of Falmouth, or the surrounding countryside. Just beautiful!
@StLouisCruisers Looking at the date you showed on your post with all the pictures it just clicked that we were on the same cruise on the Prinsendam in 2019 and it is very sad that they are not able to post at this time but also Jackie and Jose were on this cruise at least from April 12th until Dover on May6th and we had a few tours together , than we stayed on until Amsterdam on May 20th .
Tony 😄
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11 minutes ago, kb4683 said:
@sailingdutchy Tony, those pictures of the tin mines could be straight out of Poldark 😃
@kb4683Yes Poldark was filmed around there and also around Porthcurno , I used to have all the episodes of Poldark in my store for rent , but that's another story ..........
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We went ashore in Falmouth, Cornwall, England when we were on one of the very last Prinsendam cruises on May 8th of 2019 and had a wonderful tour with our friend Andrea so I hope to show a few beautiful pictures when we went with our small group to Lands End , the most westerly point of England .
It was a little bit windy and high tide when we made a photo stop at St Michael’s Mount
The lovely town of Penzance
The beautiful area around Porthcurno
Just a little windy out at the corner of England
Warm up with some Cornish Pasty
We than drove to an old Tin Mine Heritage Site . ( The Geevor Tin Mine )
A wonderful day was had by all , hope to go back one day to lovely Cornwall
Time to take off for to go to Fishguard ,Wales
We are losing a little pool water while we are dining in the Canaletto
Please take care everybody and our best wishes and thoughts for those wo need it , our friends Jose , Jacqui , Roy and all others .Tony 😄😄-
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Good morning / afternoon all and Happy Sunday , thank you very much to Rich and Roy for keeping this Daily going and for all the contributors , it keeps our bond strong with all our cruise friends we think of often .Yesterday I was struggling with my posts of Kaohsiung and our story of the storied Westerdam cruise , my post finally came up after asking help from CC plus I have added a few more pictures about the Westerdam story if you are interested in those .Today another nice memory to look at , Cape Horn or in Dutch Kaap Hoorn named after the city in the Netherlands of Hoorn for the birthplace of navigator Willem Corneliszoon Schouten who rounded the Cape in 1616 .Forward to 2015 while on our Antarctica cruise on the Zaandam on Feb 7th , 2015 our Captain PJ van Maurik went through the Drake Passage and circled Cabo de Hornos .We had very fine weather doing all of this so I can show a few pictures , but you can see that the winds can be very strong here from the damaged monument that had partially been blown over .
From the screen in the crows nest
Chilean coastguard
And a gorgeous sky before while starting the crossing to Antarctica
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11 hours ago, USN59-79 said:
Kind of late, but I can add a little to what Tony said. We joined the Westerdam in Hong Kong and weren't allowed to go to our first scheduled port, Manila. So we turned around and headed to Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It was supposed to be a two day stop (probably because of the non-stop in the Philippines). However, after one day we were told to leave. We headed towards Bangkok, Thailand, where we were told to make flight arrangements and disembark. As we got close to the port, a Thai Navy destroyer came out and rudely escorted us away from their country. At that point we didn't know where the ship would or could go. Some thought Guam, being a U.S. port would take us. But we ended up at Cambodia, where we were warmly greeted. Each of us was gifted a nice scarf by Cambodia's ruler and we all eventually flew home from there.
I know I took pictures of the giant Buddha we visited outside of Kaohsiung, but they have somehow disappeared.
Ray
Thank you @USN59-79 yes there is much more to this unforgettable story with a very happy ending .Here a couple more pictures of the mood on board ship and of our friends and also DW with the Cambodian scarfs.
There were representatives of the American the Dutch and Canadian Embassies on board ship and also in the airport of Phnom Penh .
We also were quickly tested before we left the ship by Cambodian doctors and nurses
Some people were taken by bus to the Sihanoukville airport while others later on had to travel by bus all the way to Phnom Penh
We were allowed to leave on the second day in Sihanoukville while others would have to wait another 3 or 4 more days
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Sorry @ger_77 I tried a couple more times but it did not work today I don't think the gremlins were at fault today , it was me that pushed a wrong button somewhere in my original set up to get text and photos together .
My Post was about Kaohsiung being the last port on the Westerdam in 2020 before we were stuck at sea for more than a week and there was quite a bit of typing involved to explain what had happened .
Somewhere it is hidden in post # 68 and # 80
Next time better
Tony 🙃
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We have been to Kaohsiung , Taiwan twice . I will post a few pictures of the memorable last time we were there while on the Westerdam on Feb 4th , 2020 .Yes THAT cruise ! We arrived a day early in Kaohsiung because of a supposed virus going around and Manila did not allow us to come in . So when we arrived in Taiwan we thought to just have an easy day and go by local bus into town to a large shopping mall and have a nice lunch and than the next day I would go with my group see the hi lights of Kaohsiung ………
All the decorations from the Holidays and also the Chinese New Year were still up
For this restaurant you have to shop first for the items you would like to cook in thebroth or on the fire at your table , it looked very adventurous
We were invited in .....
But we decided to go to this “ Choose and Point “ menu restaurant
Welcome to 2020 ……........????? The year of the Rat !!!
The next morning we got up early to do our tour , I had hired a small bus for 16 of us with one of the best guides in Kaohsiung and we had planned to go to the Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center .I looked out the window and noticed that it was very, very quiet outside , I looked further and saw that the Port was closed and completely sealed off and the gangway was being pulled in . You might have heard what happened for the next 8 or 9 days the Captain was taking us every which direction to find a place where we could go ashore , at one point we even had the Thai Navy shadowing us when we were going the direction of a port in Thailand
Than all of a sudden our Captain made a 180 degree turn and we heard one of our last chances was to go to Cambodia .Making a long story short , in Cambodia we were welcomed by the President himself who had arrived by helicopter with Press from all over the world present , and from there we disembarked in small groups and on our way home over the next few days
We have nothing but praise for what Holland America have done for all of us in this situation , in the end nobody had the virus , the crew was fantastic on board we even had a large farewell meeting . The BBC , The New York Post and the Dutch Telegraaf all did their stories and we even made the Front Page in a couple of them .
Yes there was much relief and I saw tears from crew and guests
Flowers for the Captain and crew from the CambodiansWe had heard that everybody was very worried about us and so were the Press reports , but we had a wonderful and very memorable cruise the one we will not easily forget
Tony ( I am there in the center of the picture in Phnom Penh , Cambodia talking to HAL staff for what our options going home are )-
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I tried to post a few my pics of Kaohsiung and my story of the Westerdam a while earlier today Post #68 but I do not believe it came through it looked very strange and said it was hidden ??? Can anybody see it ?Will try again , even if it is quite late nowTony 🤔
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Way back in 2011 while on the Rotterdam VI we had a wonderful cruise from R’dam to R’dam to the Baltics and St Petersburg and joined one of the HAL “sticker tours “ to see some beautiful spots in Tallinn .Thanks for the pics @StLouisCruisers I hope to add a few different angles of this nice Capital city .
I was trying hard to make a decision about this offer …………too much work , didn’t like the downspout !
The place where they hold their annual International Choir competitions
Our very nice , and feisty " redhead " guide gave us a great tour
The ancient City Walls
Would have loved to visit the other 2 Baltic states Estonia and Lithuania , maybe they will be on a future cruise .Drop the lines and let’s go to St Petersburg , we were so curious to see that amazing place ….Our best wishes to all of our CC friends , we are specially thinking of Jose , Jacqui , Roy and all other friends on the "care list "Tony 😆-
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The Daily for Monday 12/27/2021
in Holland America Line
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Wonder if we ever get used to it Rich and I am not talking about cats .............but after some 52 years we understand each other very well !