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 ea...

On November 10, I posted on   how important sleep was for a longer and healthier life .  I Indicated I had a revelation which could well be the key to solving my sleep problem. This clue had to do with the fact that I had difficulty sleeping when my blood pressure was high.  So I searched the world-wide web and found numerous  studies linking poor sleep to high blood pressure .  Amazing, in that I've been taking these hypertension pills for decades and I never in the past connected high blood pressure with trouble sleeping.   From Harvard . Compared to women who slept seven to eight hours daily, those who slept six or five hours were 7% and 10% more likely to develop hypertension. Those women who had trouble falling or staying asleep were 14% to 28% more likely to have high blood pressure. Surely, can't be much different for males, too. But does lack of sleep cause high blood pressure, or vice versa?  From the  Mayo Clinic . Is it true that n...