It was a good morning with a lovely breakfast provided by the hotel. And a crisp clear day to Bundled up in a down jacket with a nice scarf to match my outfit and set out for the Van Gogh museum a beautiful museum with a wonderful collection. And amazing marketing! Lunch was at a nearby restaurant - Blushing - with healthy food and a modem design. Then to the Rijks museum. The Rembrandt paintings are so different from the Van Goghs of course. Joey preferred the R...

Waking up at 6:30 is not my ideal way to start the day! Yet there we are... Our guide brought his car even though I said we had 4 large suitcases and 8 Carry on and 3 people (we are traveling with an Australian friend from the ship) to Amsterdam- so he turned around and got his limo. Traveling first class!! Nice .. We drove to The Hague with a stop at the beach. Housing, lots of different styles, then continued toward Amsterdam passing agricultural and pastoral s...

Up at 7am for immigration at Southhampton - really another waste of day. Early breakfast and waiting around for departure at 11 am, so I started to pack . Did I say a waste of daylight? Why not let us off the ship and run around the city until 3 or 4... Lunch at noon, trivia at 1:30 (all our smart members left, so we lost horribly) then a mani/pedi to set me up for the rest of the trip, then back to packing ... Dinner, packing, try to sleep...

Aaah, sleeping late is so luxurious! And a small breakfast, separating clothes for laundry, showering for lunch, and waiting for the ship to round the point of Brest to enter the English Channel before arriving in southhampton tomorrow morning. We decided to lunch at the Pinnacle Grill - the "high end" restaurant at $10/person. The food was nice and service good. Took pix of appetizers but forgot main course pix. Then trivia. We missed a bunch but did well on the...

Since we had been here before and we were kind of tired, we just wandered around the port area shops. Joey finally got close to buying a watch, but no.. He stopped for another tube of toothpaste, and then we went to the post office for a box to mail some fancy clothes home that we won't need in Italy. Back to the ship and packed that box up. Then back to the post office to mail the package! Lunch, trivia and dinner again. Not all that much special for the day.. S...