A Pictorial Journal of the World
We were up early for our last day in Amsterdam. Today we are going to board the Viking Hlin. We were originally scheduled to sail on the Viking Kara but due to low water levels in the Rhine River the Kara can’t make it all the way to Amsterdam. We are going to do what […]
MoreAfter we left the Anne Frank House we decided to find a local bar where we could test some beer. On our way we came upon a street artist, near the museum. We stopped to look at his work and Barbara bought a small painting. Its not hard to find a bar as they are […]
MoreSaturday morning, November 3rd, found us on the way to the Anne Frank House. The house (indicated in blue on the photo below), located on the Prinsengracht Canal is now a museum dedicated to the memory and determination that was the Frank family. For two long and desperate years Otto Frank, his wife Edith and […]
MoreYou can get any where in the world within a day or two. We are flying to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, today with our good friends Jimmy and Barbara as a start to our Rhine River Cruise on Viking River. Starting in Philadelphia on Lufthansa, we are flying through Frankfurt. Two good flights and we found […]
MoreGreat time in Alaska and Canada. Now all that remains is our trip home. Our flight was scheduled for 8:20am, so we had to be up and out early, really early. That meant setting the alarm clock for 4:00am so that we could be taxi bound for the airport no later than 5:15am. Although we […]
MoreVancouver is a beautiful city! JoAnn and I have been here twice before and found it to be clean, friendly, architecturally interesting and generally inviting. We stayed at the Pan Pacific Hotel on the waterfront at Canada Place. Holland America booked us there for a one-night layover before flying home to Philadelphia. The Pan Pacific […]
MoreNot much to say about today. It’s a day cruising the inside passage on our way to Vancouver, Canada. It’s also our last day on board and packing, although a nuisance, is a must. As with everywhere except Ketchikan, its raining. What a monotonous thing to have to report. I’ll bet even you, the reader […]
MoreWhat do you call it when the rain isn’t falling, the breeze isn’t blowing and the day isn’t cold and bitter? A rare, sunny day in Ketchikan, Alaska’s rainiest town. Why just yesterday they had almost three inches of liquid fall from the sky. How lucky were we to see the sun? What a wonderful […]
More