AMSTERDAM TO VIKING TIR TO COLOGNE, GERMANY

Today, a series of photos taking us from our Marriott Hotel in Amsterdam to the Viking Tir, and our doings on board. Our final brunch at the Marriott. The place has been packed. Noticed the cost. With sparkling wine, $63/person.

Excellent breakfast, but expensive. We get it free. Executive Club below later in the day.

Not much, but enough, and free drinks. Can't believe I only walked 179 steps today, but our room is adjacent to the elevator, which is close to the executive club and restaurant. So, maybe, for I didn't do anything all day.

At 1PM caught a taxi to the Viking Tir. It was snowing!

Viking Tir.

Lunch.

Stateroom 223 with veranda.

View from our veranda.

Tir, incidentally, is the Norse God of Heroic Glory, the son on Hymir.

View from our veranda at night.

You can have for free, beer and wine with lunch and dinner.

Lunch. Two soups and salads.

Then dinner. We have captured this end table by showing up early. Soup and salad, followed by pork balls of some kind.

Then spaghetti carbonara and salad.

The next day, a mandatory life-jacket exercise. Just show up...and that was about it.

2152 steps on first day on ship.

Pre-dinner drinks of Kir and champagne, then dinner.

Dancing.

2033 steps today.

We have arrived in Cologne. Tomorrow, photos, etc.

Okay, the most popular songs in the Netherlands, from 1960 to 2020. Begins with an Edith Piaff song, Milord, sung by Corry Brokken of the Netherlands, and has Americans in this list, like Simon and Garfunkel. The Beatles, of course, but also We Are the World. Only a very few Dutch songs made the list.

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