I JUST NOTICED THAT THIS 12DECEMBER2024 POSTING WAS MISSING, SO HERE IT IS TODAY.  There will also be a posting for Sunday, 30March2025.   Note that I use Christmas-time European Cruise, for we were told on the ship that this was not a Christmas Cruise, but a cruise during the Christmas season, which sort of begins in November.  While some Christmas Markets open in later November, most start in early December.  We left Amsterdam on November 21, and saw no Christmas Market until Day 10. It was cold during the entire river cruise.  It snowed during our taxi ride from the Marriott Amsterdam to Viking Tir.  Tir is the Norse God of Heroic Glory. We had been traveling for more than a month when we boarded, so did not have of those luggage tags they mail to you (which we saw after we got home), but no problem.  They got our bags into our room.  Had lunch. Beer and wine come with lunch and dinner. Our room and view of Amsterdam harbor. Good size shower an...