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Thank you for another nice Daily this morning to all the contributors . Looking forward during this Covid crisis reading and learning from my CC friends .
Had a nice crop of garlic last year and DW loves to cook with quite a bit of garlic so planted even more last fall and it seems to be doing pretty good right now .
Also because we can't go anywhere so far I hope that we also have more veggies and fruits to harvest . Nothing tastes better than when it is fresh from the garden onto your plate , it also gives us lots to freeze for a cold nasty winter that we usually have around us here and DW loves to cook and experiment her new dishes on me !😄
Happy gardening everybody !
Tony 😄
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Good evening all . Thank you for all of the posting and the pictures .
For me April 18th has always been a very special day , because it is DW's BD . We have been very lucky to celebrate that together with HAL a few times even on the BHB's . ( Martha is not half her age so she has a long way to go yet ! )
Two years ago she and I received a special present on her BD , a "real " Gold Medal and while she got that from the Captain on the Prinsendam our friends who were on that cruise in the auditorium started to sing Happy Birthday and the whole room joined in .........another day we will remember forever !
Because of the lockdown we are in in SW Ontario I was the only one that did the singing
Tony 😄
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We have been a couple of times through the Panama Canal from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans and once in 2017 on the Zuiderdam we just went to the Gatun lake for part of the day through the locks early in the morning and back out in the afternoon and enjoyed a short nice HAL sticker tour not in a bus but in a canoe !
And back out on our way to Puerto Limon , Costa Rica
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5 hours ago, rafinmd said:
Thank you for the traditional tax day Daily, Rich. Today is also an infamous day in history, the day Titanic met her grave. A high 5 to American Sigh Language. I depended heavily on Rubber Erasers while in School. Gatun Lake is lovely, although straining a bit at the concept of a port. Interesting quote. Saucy Skillet Lasagna sounds interesting. My alternative is Chilled Anjou Pear Soup, Linguini Carbonara, and Butter Pecan Ice Cream as served on MS Zaandam April 15, 2017.
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Today's care list:
KakalinaSt. Vincent
myself facing cardiac surgery
Welfare of furloughed crews
NextOne DH facing chemo
dfish and Horizon Chaser 1957 DH awaiting dental work
RIP Prince Phillip
While we can pray for our crews let us also do our parts to get the pandemic under control and make cruising more possible--wear our masks, wash our hands, keep our distance, and get vaccinated when out turn comes.
Roy @rafinmd Thank you so much for adding the furloughed crews to the care list and for your thoughts they are very much appreciated .
I am so sorry to hear that you had a setback today with the news the trial does not work for you and I hope and pray that the experts soon find a positive treatment for you !
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Today April 14th takes me back to a very nice day on the Prinsendam in 2019 to a nice special event .The manager of the Lido and the Canaletto on that cruise was Rifki whom we had met previously on a couple of other cruises and we had a special bond with . His right hand server in the Canaletto , Metha had told me that it was Rifki’s birthday on the 14th so DW and I went to the dining room and I asked them there for a Birthday cake , they said why is that so I mentioned that upstairs in the Canaletto it was our friend Rifki”s birthday today and we would like to surprise him .With birthday cake in hand we went upstairs saw Rifki and started singing Happy Birthday in English and also in Dutch ( which as I mentioned before sounds like the Indonesian BD song ) to a very surprised Rifki :
After four of us had dinner in the Canaletto Rifki came to us and said Tony I have to show you this on my phone and he showed me a Video of his young son , about 6 , 7 or 8 in Indonesia , who had decorated the whole living room of his home with streamers and signs for his daddy who was at work at sea and also sang for his daddy ………. Rifki had tears in his eyes so I will never forget this special day April 14th ……….Thinking of you today Rifki , Happy Birthday , and all of the crew of the Blue Hulled Beauties who spend 6 , 8 or 10 month at sea away from their families .We often think of all of these wonderful people that we have met on our cruises working hard on all of the ships who have made our cruising so very special and with the Covid going around also can’t wait to come back .Roy @rafinmd do you please a a place for them on the care list ?-
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I Like the Aperol Spritz specially on a warm day in the Mediterranean or as an appetizer drink in the Canaletto
….and it tastes even better when there is a demonstration at the airport and you get a free one !
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3 hours ago, highland cruiser said:
Good afternoon! Great weather again today . Booked our tickets for a tulip festival on Thursday. No rain forecasted for DH is humoring me with a walk thru the tulips!!
We flew into Fairbanks several years ago on June 21. Needless to say we never saw darkness for the time we were there.
Thanks for all the pictures and posts. Praying for the care list. Big hugs to the happy list.
Enjoy the rest of your day, everyone.
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Be careful walking thru the tulips ..............Just Tip Toe .........
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Good afternoon all , happy to join you, thank you Rich and Roy and all of the Daily contributors greetings and best wishes to all from rainy SW Ontario .We have not had the pleasure to be in the Port of San Antonio near Santiago , Chili . Hope to get there someday me being its namesake without the San that is !Although we have left a couple of times from Valparaiso for cruises to Antarctica and another one to Vancouver , I will leave my pictures of Valparaiso until Rich selects that port but show some of my Santiago pictures where we have spend altogether about a week .We stayed near the old city centre and from there have done a few real nice walking tours that we really enjoyed . Warning !! be careful DW had to buy a new slice proof purse after her wallet disappeared , not a lot of damage done just a few dollars and renewing of some cards ,the valuables were in the hotels safe .
The mask had a special meaning from the artist it had nothing to do with a raging Covid .
Presidential palace watching a nice parade
Enjoying the dancing and scenery from a terrace until a fire broke out in the restaurant next door
And of coarse when in Child one must do a lot of wine tasting ……… we love the Chilean and Argentinian wines .
All by all we really enjoyed our stays in SantiagoTony 😀-
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Close Ann @VictOriann, but here is where the name Keukenhof came from.The history of Keukenhof, the name meaning “kitchen garden”, goes back to the 15th century. Countess Jacoba of Bavaria (1401-1436) gathered fruit and vegetables from the woods and dunes here for the kitchen of Teylingen Castle. Keukenhof Castle was built in 1641, and the estate grew to an area of over 200 hectares.In 1949 a group of 20 flower bulb exporters came up with a plan to use the estate for a permanent exhibition of spring-flowering bulbs,
I should also show a few of the indoor pavillions the Orchid , the Willem-Alexander and the Beatrix pavillionsThat's it you can spend quite a bit of time thereTony 😀
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2 minutes ago, garlictown said:
@sailingdutchy My husband and I ❤️ traveling around the Netherlands! We rented a car for over 2 weeks visiting various cities and we able to visit Keukenhof in 2017. The gift shop there had the different varieties of tulips to mail home to California... so we ordered the one celebrating Canada's special relationship.🙂 I am still trying to learn how to pronounce Scheveningen.🤓 My favorite painting is the Dutch Mona Lisa-- Girl with the Pearl Earring.😉 We are still hoping to return this coming August and sail from Rotterdam in September.🛳️
You are not the only one that has trouble pronouncing Scheveningen @garlictown , a place I know very well because it is part of The Hague where I was born . During WWII it was a " password" ,you could say , to find out if you were dealing with a Dutch person or not !
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2 hours ago, StLouisCruisers said:
@sailingdutchyyour tulip photos are outstanding. I would love to see the Keukenhof Gardens sometime. Do you know when the peak time to go is?
I also see you use Pic Collage. My DIL's youngest sister is a co-founder of Pic Collage. I haven't tried it myself but see a lot of collages online.
This year the Keukenhof was suppose to be open from Mar 20 until May 9th , it has been closed for quite a few days due to the Covid- 19 but they have now decided to open up for a few weekends with limited amount of visitors . ( there is of coarse little international traffic at the moment )
Certain bulbs flower early and others are late bloomers which is all taken into account of how and where they are planted . The site is 32 acres and has 15 km of footpaths and they plant approx 7 million flower bulbs .
In 2018 there were 2.3 million of visitors !
The pictures that I took were taken on May 2nd and some of the flowers had already been headed .
Best time to go is probably between April 10 and 25 .
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7 minutes ago, Vict0riann said:
Thanks for the photos of the Keukenhof, Tony, @sailingdutchy! That’s a beautiful place to visit at tulip time.
Happy to see @LAFFNVEGASback again and posting on the Daily!
Thank you very much Ann @Vict0riann, @cat shepard , @ger_77 and @Quartzsite Cruiser for your comments . I usually try to stay within the " subjects of the day " as far as posting pictures are concerned specially if there are more than a dozen of them but thought that because it is springtime and we all need a little boost of our spirits I will post a few nice ones .
Tony 😀
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Thank you all for the pictures of Puerto Chiapas . We have been there on our Panama Canal cruise but I do not have digital pictures to share , just the old fashioned ones in one of my albums . Remember the port pretty good now I see the pictures that have already been posted .
In 2012 we still did the HAL sticker tours in the large busses , we smartened up fast after we were told about Cruise Critic and how "easy " it was to organize your own , what a wonderful change that was !
Today I will just show a few more pictures of the Keukenhof that we took ourselves in 2018 . I treated my Dutch cousins that had never been there yet while for us Canucks it was our third time .
Tony 😀
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Because it is such nice weather outside today in London, Ontario 22 C or about 70 F I am sending you some pictures from the Keukenhof and surrounding tulip fields in the Netherlands . For the second year in a row the gardens have been closed for visitors due to the Covid - 19 but they have shown some very nice videos and pictures on the website : www.keukenhof.nl or on youtube.com
A few professional photographers have had access to the park but it was kind of surreal for them to see all of this beauty in an empty park . All of that work that went into it last fall planting the millions of bulbs so I thought to share this with you . Enjoy and if you have not been there yet make sure you plan a visit there in the coming years .Next week we are expecting some frost at night so we can not plant much in our gardens yet .Tony 😀
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Good morning all , another nice port today from Rich , Nagasaki , we were there on Oct 18 , 2017 on the Volendam . As a matter of fact we were suppose to go there for a second time a couple of weeks later but for political reasons , “ bad” weather and an extra day in Shanghai our itinerary was changed and we had to cancel our tour for the second day in Nagasaki .So our tour through Nagasaki was likely quite different than what many others have done , with our small group and Miyuki our guide we first went by streetcar to the Mt Inasa Observation platform ( 333 m ) to have a great view of Nagasaki and learned of its history.
From there we visited Dejima , formally a small island first occupied by the Portuguese and taken over by the Dutch . From this small island all the trade was conducted between Europe and Japan in the 1800’s .
After a nice lunch in Chinatown , we went by streetcar to Teramachi where we visited a number of temples all very close to each other . The most famous one the Kofukuji temple ( Zen Sect.- 1620 )
Last place for the day we visited the “ Megane - bashi “ the Spectacles bridge
A great day was had by all back into port the skies broke open but we received a farewell from the school band anyways !
In 2019 we were suppose to go back to Nagasaki on the Westerdam , instead we roamed the seas for a large number of days , you all know what happened .......Tony 😀
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6 hours ago, Quartzsite Cruiser said:
The bottom part of the sign translates as "Look at and see our large selections of extra Items".
DH used the Google Translate app on his phone to translate the sign, but the top part did not translate.
We have found the app very useful in traveling around the world.
Lenda
Thank you very much for that Lenda @Quartzsite Cruiser
Very interesting , now looking at it again I believe the two lines at the bottom which you translated for me are in Danish and the top two lines they certainly are in Greenlandic an Eskimo - Aleut language which more than likely say the same thing now I see X-tra in Danish and X-tramiit in Aleut .
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We were in Nanortalik on Sept 8th 2012 with the Eurodam on a very ,very eventful Voyage of the Vikings with Captain Darin Bowland , Hotel Manager Stan Kuppens and cruise director JC ! What a team !!!Due to multiple hurricanes we had already missed the Shetland Islands because of hurricanes and later on we had to miss St John’s Newfoundland due to hurricanes Leslie AND Michael who were predicted to produce 50 foot seas !!! and 80 knot winds so the captain decided for safe passage to go around Nfld between it and Canada’s mainland to outrun these severe storms .Enough talk I will show some nice pictures of Nanortalik a very nice village with a population of about 1200 and here comes the Eurodam with about 2100 guests ……
BTW The name Nanortalik means “Place Where the Polar Bears Go "Can somebody translate this please ...?
We first went for a nice little walk around the village . Nanortalik is on a small island half a mile off the mainlands coast .
An older Inuit couple cleaning the catch of the day
We visited the local museum which has many interesting things like tupilaks , old kayaks and tools the Inuit use and walked past this very nice little church .
This is a tender port and after an easy very nice day in a very different culture we went back to the Eurodam .
Have a great day everybody , Take Care and Stay SafeTony 😀
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13 minutes ago, Copper10-8 said:
Tony; next time you go to the "A" (as in the ABC's), think about paying a visit to this place - Super Food Plaza - it is worth it, especially for Dutchies and/or former Cloggies - You can get most everything in there that you remember from your childhood in Holland and then some. They have a little restaurant where you can get a "broodje kroket," and/or "bitterballen" among other things. A cab ride from the port will take about 20-25 min one way and all the cabbies know it
Ziet er goed uit John ! ( Looks good , John ) I marked down the name of the plaza , thanks .
Near the ship there was also a restaurant that had the real Dutch pancakes and also "poffertjes ! " ( the little pancakes )
Thanks , Tony 😀
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A very good morning all !We have also been to Aruba a few times and enjoy roaming around there , went to the butterfly gardens one time made a tour of the island to see the original large Natural Bridge but there also is some good shopping there and there are some very good little restaurants there for lunch .When on the Zuiderdam in January of 2017 we were in port until 11 pm so lots of time to do all of these things had an amazing Red Snapper lunch and after we did some shopping . After it got dark the atmosphere changed a lot we watched a real large and noisy Carnaval Parade it stretched a long way , was extremely loud there were a number of bands and a lot of floats providing drinks to the participants who were singing , dancing with string lights around their bodies and drinking their local and of coarse also the Heineken beer was flowing .........
The local Aruba Beer Balashi
Sorry they were all moving
After we got back on board the Zuiderdam we could see and hear all of the partying still going on in Oranjestad until late at night .We specially love the Southern Caribbean in particular the A B C islands , very nice even climate and more than likely the warm connections with The Netherlands play a big role in that for us . Hope we can go back there soon even for a short 10 cruise just to get going again !Tony 😀-
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We were with our teenage grandsons , 13 and 15 on the Koningsdam a coupe of years ago and they loved everything of what this other Pinnacle Class had to offer while we were in the Mediterranean in August .
Not a minute were they bored , they spend some time with the adults but most of the time they were very happy to be with a small number of new friends from a number of other countries .
Seeing your description of what your children prefer to do I believe they will be in the right place .
Tony
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7 hours ago, StLouisCruisers said:
Tony, that has happened to both of us! On April 8, 2017 we were on the Maasdam and celebrated my birthday in the Pinnacle Grill.
The following day was also my birthday due to the going back and forth across the International Date Line, so they brought me out another cake at our late seating table in the main dining room. This time the dining room staff sang Panjang Umurnya.
@StLouisCruisers You are correct that on Birthdays in Indonesia they sing the song that we always hear on the ships Panjang Umurnya . What I was trying to say in my post was that because of the Colonial historie ( Indonesia used to be called Dutch East Indies from about 1800 until about 1948 ) the tune is a Dutch tune called " Lang zal ze leven " freely translated " Wishing you a long life " while the Indonesian lyrics also mean "Long is his / her age " .
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2 hours ago, bobpatj said:
Today is Bob’s birthday, too, and I’m not cooking either! With our DD & SIL dining with us, it’s takeout from a favorite restaurant.
Happy Birthday Bob !
BTW Pat @bobpatjby chance did you send me an email yesterday ????
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We also had the pleasure of landing in Pago Pago on the Oosterdam in 2013 on April 21st , I had no tour booked instead I went for a long walk all by myself around the harbour inlet , a beautiful area .Will also tell you about the very special day I had
Again this was quite a special day for me because it happened to be the second birthday in two days !After we visited Apia , Samoa on April 21st we crossed the dateline and the next day when we landed in Pago Pago it was April 21st again so I had 2 BD cakes in 2 days ! How often does that happen in your lifetime ?
The choir in the Canaletto singing Happy Birthday in Indonesian to the tune of “ Lang zal ze leven “ which really is a Dutch BD song .
Love it that Rich @richwmn has added the Port of the day feature while we are in the grips of the Covid lockdowns so we can look back at wonderful memories from cruises we have made all over the world ! Thank you Rich !Have a great day everybody !Tony 😀😀-
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A Very Blessed and Happy Easter to everybody on the Daily ! Let us hope for a New Beginning for all of us !I went back in my recollection and tried to count the number of time we celebrated Easter on one of the Beautiful Blue Hulled Ships and I came to at least six times so now I am searching for pictures to share .From the first couple on the Veendam in 2008 and the Nieuw Amsterdam of 2012 I must have lost those pictures or have to go back to my real photo albums .Here a couple from Easter on the Eurodam in April of 2014 :Look at this wonderful lady Nilla who we have met quite a few times on other cruises in the Tamarind and we hope to see her again when things start of again .Sorry I don’t have the name of the Easter Bunny . Love all of those happy faces !
Two Bunnies …….
Next Easter we experienced was on the Oosterdam in March of 2016A wonderful Trans Atlantic accompanied by the Harry James Orchestra , a 16 men orchestra conducted by Fred Radke they performed almost everyday either on the Main Stage or in the Crows Nest and there was a lot of fantastic dancing going on , the real professionals were there !
This really felt like a “ Cruise from the Past “ with tunes from Harry James , Glenn Miller and others
And when I returned to our cabin I found ......, should I say it , two Bunnies !
The next Easter we celebrated on a cruise was on the Zaandam in 2017 which wentfrom Chile to Vancouver with our good friends Ann and Pat we celebrated Easter on April 16th . Maybe @Vict0riann has some pictures of that day ….The last Easter was on the Prinsendam and a pretty special one because it also happened to be my BD quite unusual because it was a late Easter ( April 21st )This was the Prinsendam’s last cruise from the Mediterranean to Amsterdam before moving to Germany .
Rifki the Lido and Canaletto manager presented me with the traditional BD cake at breakfast ...And at dinner that day ! No wonder I gained weight that cruise !
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The Daily for Monday Apr 19, 2021
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Great to hear Roy @rafinmd that you are scheduled for your procedure on May 14th , that call from the university must have been lifting a ton of stress from you , will be thinking of you and wishing all the best , and yes stay active as much as you can .
Tony