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Not last week.

The smallest members of the crew are actually inside the machine with scuba gear and a pair of matching brushes. If you move the paper towels to one side, you can sometimes see their happy little faces as they brush your hands. 😉

We have arrived home safely and laundry has been done. I will update with final thoughts etc in a day or two. Thanks for following.

The guide is John Reid and the company is https://tenerifeprivatetours.com/ He is a very interesting guy and not only does he know the island's geography, history and politics but he can share his knowledge in a warm and interesting way. He is also a published author. https://reidten.blogspot.com/2013/07/pirates-of-canarrean.html

You know you are in trouble when you select Top Ten and you get 11 results! 🙄

https://countrymusiccruise.com/ Their 2025 Charter on Nieuw Amsterdam January 19 - 26 I love their listing of "Activities" 😉 There is a good country song in there somewhere.

Good afternoon from home. Here is home's postion this morning as we docked.....(what am I talking about????🙄) Also the 'Daily' has not been delivered yet and there are no menus available on any device or on the tv. Never mind 'No Diet Day' it already feels like 'No Food Day'. We both have the shakes from C.W.S. (Cruising Withdrawal Syndrome!) DD left essentials for us, but we have to prepare and cook ourselves. Let me see now,,,,,,www.hollandamerica dot com......click....that should help! Have a great day everyone. P.S. we arrived home last night after a great cruise and it really is no diet day, but it will start tomorrow.

Good afternoon from AMS Schiphol airport. We disembarked NSDM at 7.15 this morning and met our tour bus. We had a slightly delayed tour departure as two pax did not arrive. The guide announced that they were in isolation on the ship! 😱 We took a tour to Keukenhof and then to the airport. Here is where the ship was docked this morning... and here is a pic of Keukenhof...

After lunch we came back to the stateroom and there was a message from the front desk reminding us that we still had unused non refundable obc. Nice touch!

Today's Daily

PDF files for the last days menus lunch_menu_07.pdf north_europe_dr_menu_10_reformat.pdf m14-day14-_lido_lunch_north_europe.pdf m14-day14-_lido_dinner_north_europe.pdf day_7_lido_late_snack (1).pdf

Today's menus MDR Lunch on another sea day. (Again a different file name so could be a different menu!) MDR Dinner Lido lunch Lido dinnet Lido late snack

I must confess to foresaking bread pudding on our last day and bingeing on chocolate cake and strawberry ice cream.

Today in Lido was Cake Away. It was mentioned on the Daily.

Saturday4th May at sea English Cannel/North Sea May the fourth be with you! Here is our position a short time ago as you can see we really are cruising...... a full 9 knts of speed.