THIS POSTING IS ANOTHER OF MY EXPERIMENTAL FORAYS NECESSITATED BY MY TRAVEL SCHEDULE.  Here is my problem. A Tauck Tulip cruise on the Espirit is filled with too many things to do that I can't find time to do my blog. Today, I will merely provide a bunch of photos, and later come back to make some sense of my day, Keukenhof in Lisse, Netherlands, is the  ultimate tulip garden of the world, and among the most fabulous of any floral park anywhere.  I have rarely been so impressed about anything of this nature in my life.  Covers 79 acres with 7 million flower bulbs. Keukenhof is only open to the general public for 8 weeks during the tulip season, which is mid-March to mid-May.  Mid-April is best, and yes, it was incredible. One comparison is that the Rijksmuseum, which I visited yesterday, receives an average of 8,000 visitors/day.  Keukenhof does 26,000/day. Created by Adriaen Block, governor of the Dutch East India Company in 1641. Restructured in 1857. However, the park, as it now

Another short flight today, from Copenhagen to Amsterdam on KLM.  By the way, for those planning on a European trip, keep in mind that they don't all use Euros.  The exceptions are Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and Denmark, where it is about 7 Danish Kroner to the U.S. dollar.  Also keep in mind that Norway is not a member of the EU and it is nearly 11 Norwegian Kroner to the U.S. dollar.  Sweden and Iceland use the Krona. The airline lounge was okay, with hard liquor, wines and beers available in the morning.  Neither our Munich nor Copenhagen hotel executive clubs, for example, offered any kind of spirits beyond wine and beer.  We were the only one there for a long while. As we approached Amsterdam, saw tulip fields. One of the advantages of living in Scandinavia is the lack of severe natural disasters.  Sure, a few hurricanes have managed to survive all the up to this far north causing some damage.  Take tsunamis, for example. Only a 2% chance of a