Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #101 Share Posted March 28, 2023 More from the Diamond Museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #102 Share Posted March 28, 2023 A great gift shop too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #103 Share Posted March 28, 2023 A quick lunch and then we zipped back to the meeting point for the bus going back to the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #104 Share Posted March 28, 2023 🌈Once back on board we could appreciate a positive aspect of "changeable" skies.. The most glorious rainbows!!🌈 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #105 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) 50 shades of brooding gray clouds and a nuclear power plant which is always an odd sight to see. Edited March 28, 2023 by Sleep7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #106 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Even though it was the second to last evening on board.. tonight was the Gala Dinner!! We were dressed and ready! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #107 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Everything was delicious.😋 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #108 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Disembarkation instructions were waiting in our cabin after dinner. Parting will be such sweet sorrow.. tomorrow.. 😢 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #109 Share Posted March 28, 2023 If it's Saturday it must be Brussels.😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #110 Share Posted March 28, 2023 😊I keep making the same "If it's Tuesday.. " joke. Just looked up the movie.. I remember seeing it in 1969 as a kid with my parents. So weird about the "Vaccinated Americans" abroad. Foreshadowing to 51 years ahead.😷 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #111 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Anyways.. back to Brussels! Another 50 shades of gray rainy day but we enjoyed it to the fullest as it was our last on the cruise. We chose the included chocolate making class excursion and it was awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #112 Share Posted March 28, 2023 The shipped was docked about a 20 minute bus ride into town. We were dropped off in a square that looked just like the center of Vienna. Our tour guide then said that the bureaucrat (can't remember exactly who it was) loved all things Viennese and he ordered the buildings there to look just like the ones in Vienna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #113 Share Posted March 28, 2023 She also pointed out this beautiful building nearby that was constructed mostly out of glass because it used to house a silk and fine materials market. It was all windows because you needed the light to really examine what the merchants were selling. Interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #114 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Promptly at 10am we entered the chocolate shop. I learned 2 things that day.. chocolate making is super fun and NOBODY looks good in a hairnet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #115 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) Elisabetta explained all about the chocolate making process and all of the amateur chocolatiers went to work. Edited March 28, 2023 by Sleep7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #116 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) First we decorated chocolate bars. Then we "freeformed" our own designs. Edited March 28, 2023 by Sleep7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #117 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Then a short city tour on the bus and back to the ship for lunch. Brussels is a city I would love to come back to as we really just scratched the surface of what to do and see. It's on my list now.📝 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #118 Share Posted March 28, 2023 After lunch Avalon ran a shuttle back into town if you wanted to spend some more time there. Oui! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #119 Share Posted March 28, 2023 These daffodils saved us! When we got off the shuttle bus our daughter called and we were chatting with her as we were walking and NOT paying any attention to where the bus dropped us off and where it would it be picking us up later.😮 We walked and talked and then realized we really didn't remember where the bus stop was and Sam thought he dropped a pin there was the pin was to the ship not the stop. We realized later that the daily planner did have the address of the location but it was a hairy 15 minutes trying to retrace our steps to where we were dropped off. And then we rounded a corner.. saw a big church and then these daffodils and we knew we were close! Whew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #120 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Oh! And we did spot some more tulips in a Spar Express small supermarket.🌷 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare notamermaid Posted March 28, 2023 #121 Share Posted March 28, 2023 When I saw your first post I thought "sleep7 has been on another river cruise. This will be a great read!" And it sure is! I have not even managed to get through the first two pages, cannot keep up. Thanks so much for sharing. notamermaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Lois R Posted March 28, 2023 #122 Share Posted March 28, 2023 This has been a wonderful review🙂thank you for sharing your experience with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #123 Share Posted March 28, 2023 58 minutes ago, notamermaid said: When I saw your first post I thought "sleep7 has been on another river cruise. This will be a great read!" And it sure is! I have not even managed to get through the first two pages, cannot keep up. Thanks so much for sharing. notamermaid 👋Helloooo notamermaid!! 😊Of course I remember you from the river cruise board all those years ago. You had commented that you were surprised and happy the ship included Mendig as an excursion. I'm very touched by your compliments! It really means a lot. So glad you are enjoying it!😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #124 Share Posted March 28, 2023 6 minutes ago, Lois R said: This has been a wonderful review🙂thank you for sharing your experience with us. 👋Hi Lois R! Thank you for your sweet post and thank you for sharing last week's adventure with me!😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Sleep7 Posted March 28, 2023 Author #125 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Now where was I? Ahh.. here I am.😊 Back on the ship we enjoyed our final Happy Hour and a goodbye toast to the passengers who were leaving the next day. Of the 120 people on board around 40 were leaving which meant that 80 were staying to enjoy another week on the Imagery II heading back north and ending in Amsterdam the following Sunday. Lucky them.. I am rarely jealous but I wished we could have stayed. Sam's gotta go back to work.. another trip needs to be planned.. Here is the menu for our last supper. As per usual I ordered the steak well done and as per usual it was extremely "well done."👏 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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