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53 minutes ago, Quartzsite Cruiser said:
I guess we speak and spell English and you American Lenda @Quartzsite Cruiser as long as we understand each other we will be OK !
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30 minutes ago, rafinmd said:
I've been to Bar Harbor a number of times, starting with the Regent Sun in 1994, and also Blount Grand Caribe, . both Crystal Symphony and Serenity, and on the Veendam. Lots of nice photos and I'll post just a couple. A nice thing about the Grande Caribe is that it's small enough that it docked right in the center of town:
I'll post a bit of a story along with a photo from the Veendam. The Cruise Director was the often maligned Linda Minniken and it's the only time I sailed with her that was not on the Prinsendam. At the time I think is was just a 2-star mariner and was concerned about tendering as I was looking at a 10AM church service. After the show she gave some tips, including the fact that the demand usually isn't there for the first couple of tenders.
I was in line about 7:30 and ashore about 8:10 leaving me lots of time to explore before worship. I didn't do a lot but checked our a breakfast spot, "Cafe This Way" which was crowed in the morning but had plenty of room after the service. At 10AM I was at the United Church of Christ:
After the service I found the Blueberry Pancakes at Cafe This Way were a touch of heaven.
Roy
Cafe This Way is one of our favourite hang outs for lunch !!!! Well hidden of the street but it is always crowded , they have very good servers !
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Happy 4th of July to all of our American friends .We have been to Mount Desert Island about 8 or 9 times because our DD and family have a beautiful spot to spend a couple of weeks in the summertime in Bass Harbor ( almost forgot you spell Harbour without a U ???? Even my spell check says that I forgot the U )Bass Harbor is on the quiet side of Mount Desert Island but for entertainment and choice of nice restaurants we have often been to Bar Harbor and have seen the Veendam , Maasdam and other BHB's there in July and August .Let me see if I have some nice pictures to shareThis is Mount Desert Island in the winter very few people stay over the winter when we were there renovating it felt like that they locked up the island and they threw away the keys , but it is gorgeous .
BTW it doesn’t matter how many people have tried this like our GS’s did…………….that rock is still there
Bar Harbor
Going fishing for our dinner
At Beal's lobster pier with friends
Lots of hiking on Mount Desert Island , here we are going around the Jordan ponds
Lunch and special desert after the hike Ice cream with the famous popovers after the hike there was no left over for Grandpa .
View from Cadillac Mountain
Bar Harbor , hey there is one of "our" ships in port ……!
More hiking ……….are we there yet …….????
One of the many bridges on the Carriage Roads in Acadia National Park directed and financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Time for a fire and S’mores after all that hard work
DD cooked a delicious Clambake of coarse with clams and lobsters .
Low tide and sundown
Sorry folks , I hope I didn't give you the idea that this a commercial for a BnB , it is booked up for a while and we hope we will also be able to go again soon .Tony 😄-
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Good afternoon all ,Another nice day on the Daily with another nice port from Rich !Today it is Darwin where we landed with the Volendam on November 30th , 2015 on a 31 day cruise from Sydney on the Great Barrier Reef Cruise to be followed by a Far East ExplorerOne of my favourite small ships the Volendam
After we arrived in Darwin we walked with our friends to the Crocosaurus Cove in town where we watched some shows with the saltwater crocodiles and saw in the museum many other creatures from this area .Different to see a Christmas tree for us Canadians in 92 degrees heat
After a drink to cool us off we hopped onto the HOHO to go to the amazing Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Australian Territory where we spend a few hours to see all the indigenous art in this beautiful building .
After another drink while watching and listening to all these gorgeous colourful birds we went back to the ship for a special dinner .
Very nice adventurous self guiding day was had by all while we learned a lot about the Northern Territories . Great day in Darwin !
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Good morning Dailyites , we had our big fireworks last night in celebration of Canada Day and all of you South of the still “locked “ border are probably making preparations for your big July 4th holiday !We had the great pleasure on October 31st , 2016 while we were on the Prinsendam , the " Elegant Explorer “ to go the the Island of Gozo on a tour with a small group together with our good friends Ann and Pat and DD Cathy @VictOriannWith our minibus we drove to the Northern part of the Main Island where we got on board the Gozo Ferry that would take us to the smaller island of Gozo
I kind of like this picture taken from on the ferry at our arrival on Gozo
Gozo is quite different from the main island , qua culture , scenery and also history so there are lots of pictures to chose from today , hope to show a nice selection here without too much description.
After visiting the two historic sites we drove to the North West coast of Gozo to see this natural wonder the “ Azure Window " a natural bridge developed from nature which started from the beginning of the 1800’s
I am really happy to show you this nice picture , but also very sad because the Azure Window is no more , …… After a storm on March of 2017 , this huge 92 foot high pillar ……. Completely disappeared into the sea after a very large storm in the Mediterranean ……..just 6 months after we were there !
Sharing this delicious platter " A Taste of Malta " with everything on it with for 4 of us !
Waiting in the departure hall for the ferry back to the main island
A wonderful day was had by all of beautiful Gozo ……….glad we had an overnight in Valetta to be able to do this .
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Thank you all for the daily !Happy Canada Day !
Tony and Martha 😃😃-
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And a very good morning to all from a very rainy SW Ontario we might have to built an ark to stay dry , thank you for the Daily to all of the contributors .Just a couple of pictures today from me from when we were in Key West on one of my favourite ships the Rotterdam VI on April 9 , 2018 .
We have see this in a few other places in the US
Have a very nice day everybody , we are going to celebrate our DGD Paige 's High school graduation .Tony 😃-
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Wow some very nice colourful pictures of Japanese manhole ( sorry ladies for that name , ” it is what it is " ) I also have to show you mine we saw in Kushiro , Japan( BTW I know a friend who collects these pictures of the covers )These are the beautiful Japanese Red Crowned Cranes in the wetlands there
.........and from Mrs Google :In Japan, the crane is one of the mystical or holy creatures (others include the dragon and the tortoise) and symbolizes good fortune and longevity because of its fabled life span of a thousand years. ... An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane .-
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Another very nice Port today ! We had the pleasure to get to Hakodate while on the Transition Cruise on the Volendam on Oct 11th , 2017 , the weather was a little bit windy and the day started of with some rain but we had a wonderful tour with 8 of us in a “ Smile Jumbo Taxi “ with our driver /guide Hideo .Like I said the day started quite rainy and windy but our driver had umbrellas for each of us on board , notice the white gloves that Hideo wore all day and he had nice clean and ironed white head covers on our seats in the taxi .
We first went up the mountain near Hakodate to the National park to have a great view over the city and walked over to the Gokoku Shrine where some special ceremonies were going on .
From there we drove to the very top on the mountain to the RopewaySorry not as nice a view as on the picture I noticed earlier today ..........
We watched a very nice film at the theatre there about the history of the city , had a snack and most of the ladies because of all the rain had to go and deal with the special WC for which you really needed a drivers licence and Japanese sign language ……….. but they were impeccably clean
We than left to have a walk though the Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse with all kind of small specialty stores
Even upside down you can see the beautiful swords ........lolAfter a nice little lunch , with some nice Ramen Soup in a small port we than drove to the Hakodate Magistrate’ s Office the “ Bugyosho “ in the Goryokaku Park , we toured that building and learned about the special construction of it .
After the Bugyosho we went to visit the gardens of the CatholicTrappistine Monasteries a Convent founded by 8 French nuns , most of the buildings were reconstructed in 1927 .
After visiting a couple more small parks and the Old British Consulate it was time to get back to the VolendamDespite it raining for most of the day and very few people able to speak English we all had a fantastic day , and hardly noticed the rain anymore after a whileGreetings from Japan !
Tony 😉Hope all of this comes out OK , my wifi was pretty wonky , dealing with upside down pictures and some that would not upload at all-
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@kazu congratulations to you Jacqui and Jose with your , if I can still do the math 26th anniversary ! Happy Anniversary !
Hope you don't mind me adding a picture of the happy couple from our days on the Prinsendam .
Cheers and many , many more !
Tony and Martha
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3 hours ago, VMax1700 said:
Guess we will have to get this next time we are in Ireland and hopefully , possibly together with Pat ! @VictOriann
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We have had the pleasure to enter New York harbour a couple of times on a BHB . Here some pictures of arrival and departure while on the Eurodam in 2009 when we went from Quebec City to Ft Lauderdale .Have to show you this picture first !
With a couple of friends from the Netherlands we explored NY on our ownCentral Park , Guggenheim Museum and Time Square .
Carnival Miracle needed help from some tugs , The Eurodam did it all on her own even with a very strong wind when we left . Everything on the outside decks was tied down and we listed a lot because of the wind going out of Port . It was quite exciting .
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Hello all , I am late to the party once again and was surprised there were no pictures yet of New Caledonia today .We were in Noumea , New Caledonia on a transition cruise from Auckland to Vancouver in April of 2013 on the Oosterdam and we had formed a nice small group tour with a local guide.
We made a few stops in the town and than went to a large park and a had some nice refreshing coconuts at the guides home .
Don't know why Martha was frowning , it was a nice little treat on a warm day .
Very nice day was had by all and it was also really nice to learn about a different culture on these French South Pacific Islands. New Caledonian soils contain about 25 % of the worlds nickel .Next stop Suva, FijiTony 😄-
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During this time dealing with Covid-19 it is not easy for anybody , but I just wished people would just stop second guessing of what could “ Possibly “ be happening . Listen carefully to messages from the Cruise Companies and from Governments .I realize messages are scarce and come late but this time is difficult enough to look at posts like “ Volendam now History ? “ and opinions such as “ Looks like the Volendam might be headed to the scrap yard “ that does not help anybody .Let’s keep the roll calls and the conversations positive .Tony
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8 hours ago, Vict0riann said:
My DD sent me this this morning, but I don't think she realized there is a BHB in it!
Bridges
Thank you for showing this nice video Ann @VictOriann that bridge #2 we have been under on the River Garonne near Bordeaux while on the Prinsendam . As a " Dutch Civil Engineer " I love looking at all these modern solutions and creations .
A couple of my pictures from May 2019It really did not take very long to open up for us , I was quite impressed with this in 2013 completed design .Chapeau , Messieurs !Tony
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Happy Father’s Day to all dads !And a Very Happy Anniversary to @St. Louis Sal maybe on your next cruise go for a Renewal of Vows like we did on the Koningsdam , I can recommend it , it was wonderful and this time I did not have to promise anything ............!
I had a perfect start of my father’s day when our son came over early , Martha made us a nice cheesy egg breakfast with sausages and than we were just in time to watch the start of the F-1 auto race this morning from France , on top of that , YES !!!! , the Dutchman we were rooting for Max Verstappen won the race , so the three of us could not have been happier .We have not had the pleasure to make it out to Whitehorse , I would love to go there but there are no palm trees there that DW always like to see on her holidays . On a Alaska cruise we once made it on the train from Skagway , just like Ann @VictOriann did right up to the border which was a very nice ride and it even went above the cloudsSo no pictures from me today but I will watch all of yours .Tony😉-
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1 hour ago, Love the beach said:
What a great photo!
Thank you everyone for the Daily and all the beautiful photos! I visited Koper on a family cruise in 2019 but it was a rainy day and I took just 3 photos....not nearly as nice as those posted!
Happy Father's Day to all the Dads!
Wow is that Koper ?
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On 6/18/2021 at 8:09 AM, Sir PMP said:
Katakolon:
Wow !
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29 minutes ago, Vict0riann said:
I had to do some research Ann @Vict0riann and ask my " Mrs Google , Martha " what this is called and what it is used for . I had seen this also on her families farm .
This is a Kozolec it is a traditional Slovenian drying frame hay rack
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While on the Koningsdam in October 2019 we again hit Koper and made another wonderful tour again with our guide Marco and our good friends Ann and Pat @VictOriann and this is another very nice tour to take from Koper .Slovenia is a very pristine, green , fresh country member of the EU and one of the more successful countries which were part of the former Yugoslavia . An independent country now it has through the ages multiple long times been occupied by Italian and Austrian - Hungarian regimes.We arranged a different tour from when we were on the Prinsendam and went this time to Bled and the capital city of Ljubljana
We first visited the Bled Castle right at Lake Bled
Sharing this day with Ann , Pat @VictOriann and family .
On former visits to Slovenia we have been to this little island seen here in the middle of the lake and have rung the church bells . No motorized vessels are allowed so you can book to go on a rowboat to this beautiful little island seen here over Martha’s head .
In the distance Mount Triglav , at 2863 metres the highest peak in Slovenia and the Julian Alps .
Coffee time with a special Slovenian only at Lake Bled treat !
Time to go to Ljubljana
Hey stop .....just stand there Martha ………. Why ? .......... you'll find out after I develop my pictures ......
Nice market
Door of the cathedral ......... the pope has been here …...
Is this OK Ann ?
And how do you say the name of this place …………
A wonderful day was had by all and when we got back to the Koningsdam and DW heard the music , accordion and guitars , she could not control herself and danced the polka ……….. hija hija hija hooo !
Thank you Slovenia ......... Hvala Slovenija ! We will be back ......Vrnili se bomo !Tony 😃😃-
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19 minutes ago, Cruising-along said:
Thank you so much for posting those photos! As I said in my post, that is what we plan to do on our next visit. Now I'm even more excited!
Contact Istranka in Koper Mr Ivan Tratnik tell him Tony send you
Just kidding he will not remember us , but Marco will ! 😃
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Good morning to all of our friends on the Daily , Rich , Roy and ALL of the contributors .We have had the pleasure to get ashore in Koper on a couple of cruises and also on a couple of personal trips to DW Martha's country of birth Slovenia so I hope to post quite a few pictures today , just tell me when to stop OK!The first cruise that took us to Koper was when we were on the Prinsendam on Oct 16th 2016 being a little familiar with Slovenia I set up a nice tour that took us to the amazing Postojnska Jama caves , the Predjama Castle and to the beautiful town of Piran .Hopefully I get permission from our friends Ann and Pat @VictOriann to also show their faces who joined us with their DD on this tour .Like I mentioned this was where DW was born and from where she escaped with her parents at a very early age .Our guide Marco took us first to the entrance of the Postojna Cave a 24 km deep limestone cave system where an electric train would take us on a 3.7 km journey into the cave from where we had a walking tour .
From there we drove to the nearby Predjama Castle built in the middle of a cliff some 800 years ago and is connected to secret tunnels from where occupants could escape in case of wars .
From there Marco took us to the beautiful coastal town of Piran which is not that far from Koper .
And we worked our way up through this little old town to the top of the hill where we visited this nice old church
From here it was just a short ride back to Koper and after a wonderful day we said goodbye “ nasvidenje “ to Slovenia and were on our way to Ravenna on the Elegant Explorer the PrinsendamTony 😄😄-
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4 hours ago, Alphen said:
Tony, since you apparently are good at math 😉, what does this do for the Tamarind price with the Mariners discount?
Hi Jeroen , If the Tamarind is indeed $ 34.20 the Base price would be $ 29.00 so for a 4 or 5 star mariner the price would be $ 14.50 plus 5.20 serv = $ 19.70
For a 3 star mariner it would be $ 21.75 plus $ 5.20 = $ 26.95
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The Daily for Sunday Jul 04, 2021
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We were there in the winter of 2015 for about 12 days hardly any place of business was open , there was very little snow plowing done so a complete different place than during the busy touristic season . It was very picturesque I must say , we had a great time .