The Daily.
The back.
Not much variety in meal times, but there are only two locations.
The under-cabinet recessed lighting in the bathroom is nice.
As is the closet lighting.
Crescent moon outside our window.
From outside.
Another ship.
The higher-ranking staff.
Ogii getting some coffee.
Baked goods.
These pictures don't quite line up at the edges between pages.
It's a little easier to tell with the water waves.
Although you can see it in the mountains if you get close.
Passing a town.
Our first windmill.
It's by a few houses.
In Kinderdijk, we'll be going to the south along the canal to see more windmills.
The Aquavit is open for breakfast.
Which is continental.
Dinner on the top deck.
With geese flying overhead.
Continuing on.
Towards sunrise.
A tower for something.
We can see the windmills over there.
Ogii's present today.
A heart necklace.
Bringing our dishes back down.
The sun rising.
From our room.
Looks like we're ready to disembark.
Leaving.
Our shadows on the bridge.
Looking back at our ship.
Windmills this way.
A little path.
Headed inland.
A big building.
A duck.
Windmills.
A map of them.
Directions.
Info posters.
About life here.
A sculpture in the water of a kid in a cradle with a cat, Het wiegje van Beatrijs in Kinderdijk. On November 18, 1421, a storm broke the dikes and caused one of the words floods in the Netherlands. A folk tale has a bobbing crib which was balanced by a cat, which jumped back and forth to keep the basket from sinking and thus kept the baby alive, which washed ashore in Kinderdijk.
A view of the windmills from a bridge.
With us.
A little house.
We walked along this path.
The left side was for bicycles; the right for walkers.
A bird watching us.
Trying to stay ahead of the rest of the group.
There are little cruises that go in the canal.
But no fishing.
Closer.
There are two museum windmills.
We went to Nederwaard.
On the bridge.
The bridge opening to let a boat through.
My shot of the windmills with flowers.
Monica's shot.
All that effort to stay ahead of the group, and the musem didn't open until 9am, anyway, so they caught up.
We could go inside.
And up the stairs.
To see how the lived.
The gears.
Another room.
School kids.
In 1909.
A window.
Looking out.
A picture of a goat.
They had a few other animals, too.
Us outside.
A little garden.
Mom and Dad by some windmills.
Us.
Fresh raspberries.
A little gift store.
With cheese.
Gouda.
If you buy something, you get a free use of the toilet.
Which is down the stairs.
Although it's only 70 cents and takes cards.
An attached cafe.
The apple pie looks good.
Nice view.
Stroopwafels setting up outside, although we had to get back to the ship before they had any cooked.
Wisboomgemall, the Wisboom pumping station.
The back to the ship. A shortcut.
And drinks waiting for us when we arrived.
I thought the place felt very remote, but there are a ton of grocery stores around us.
The cleaners had a duck on their cart.
Headed up the river again. I like the contrast between the old and new houses.
People waiting for a ferry.
Under a bridge.
Many houses with solar panels.
Neat building.
Ogii and I watching.
People on a ferry.
An expensive yacht.
Another river boat.
Cows in the water.
The snacks by the coffee: flammkuchen and chocolate cookies.
Lunch time.
A piano player.
The small buffet.
The bar.
Tuna salad.
Salmon.
Pasta.
Burger.
Brett trying it.
Dessert.
A church.
A windmill.
Windmill and water tower.
Resort with volleyball nets.
Wooden boat.
Neat building.
Another river cruise ship.
Prins Claus Bridge in Utrecht.
Always church steeples.
It's rather sad that McDonald's shows up on the map.
Dordrecht railway lift bridge.
Neat buildings.
Another.
Ogii napped.
While I listened to AI-created Eurodance music.
The internet wasn't super fast, but it was good enough for streaming.
I saw an ad for a daytime clubbing event in Los Angeles for older people: bed by 10pm because adults have stuff to do tomorrow.
Another neat building.
Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam.
And the Willems bridge.
More neat buildings.
Cruise terminal.
The SSCV Sleipnir, named after Odin's eight-legged horse in Norse mythology.
It installs living quarters for oil platforms.
The Maeslant Barrier is a massive storm surge barrier with enormous swinging arms.
Which can close to keep water out.
The we turned around and headed back to Rotterdam.
More cool buildings.
Dinnertime.
Soup.
Dunno.
Chicken.
Beef.
Seafood.
Salmon.
Salad.
Dessert.
Cheese plate.
Sorbet.
Ogii got a letter.
Happy birthday from Viking.
Multiple ships docked next to each other.
There was a little 100m sprinter's track right outside the ship.
Two guys racing.
We had a little group.
That went on a guided tour.
Willems Bridge.
With a bird.
Erasmus Bridge.
180-degree shot of both bridges.
The side of this building had animations.
Ogii looking through a spotting scope.
Flags of all the countries.
They have a Cyrillic-looking "R."
Funny face.
Skyscrapers.
The White House.
Which was the first high rise in Europe, at 10 stories.
A little canal.
More boats on the other side.
People rowing through.
Everyone in the world puts up missing cat posters.
Cube houses.
Looking up the center.
One is a hostel.
Very skinny entrances.
Looking back.
The bridge.
A doner place.
Market Hall, which has residential units in the building itself, a market underneath, and a giant horn of plenty mural.
With us.
The Bear.
What's this?
It forms a flower when you're at the correct angle.
Too far.
A little water area.
Where they make waves so people can surf.
An O'Neill store, which has surfwear.
And a bar overlooking it.
This corner had many American fast food restaurants, like Five Guys...
... Starbucks...
... and McDonald's.
A bat flying around under a bridge.
Noodle shop.
With noodles made in Japan.
A huge bicycle garage.
Kids everywhere like drawing on the sidewalk with chalk.
Our group was rather large, so sometimes we got stuck between lanes of traffic waiting for the stragglers.
Neat facade stone.
A lion sculpture on the bridge.
A boat with a lighthouse.
Apartments by the canal.
Back to our boat.
One last look at the Willems Bridge.
And the Erasmus Bridge.