The highlight of Day 9 in Japan was lunch in my hotel room.  Clouds still blocking a view of Mount Fuji.  The Sheraton Yokohama Bay Hotel sits over a large underground shopping mall.  A close-by market supplied chutoro and hirame sashimi and a bento of beef curry over rice.  The hotel provided the hot green tea and cold beer. Our final Club Lounge session was five hours and, below, last breakfast on Day 10. Best croissant I've had in years.  All in all, in consideration of price, this has become our favorite hotel in Japan. Then off to the Oceania Riviera.  Azaleas are in bloom. Approaching our ship.   I've been on more than a dozen cruises, maybe two.  Checking-in almost always involves standing in line, with long waits.   Perhaps an hour or more.  This time, a lot of personnel to get our luggage off the taxi and wheeled to the baggage check area.  Then, maybe a five-minute processing period.  We were on the ship ten...

I'm now fully recovered after a ten-hour sleep, partly because I opted out of the Windmills of Lomderdijk tour because I already saw an ancient windmill at Keukenhof.  Yesterday was just too much for an old man.  But let me first quickly review our visit to Keukenhof Gardens, then move on to our Maritshuis Museum exhibition and gala dinner next door at a high end men's club. I left you yesterday with a hodgepodge of photos from Keukenhof.  Today, a more organized and limited summary. The motor coach took us an hour to get to the gardens.  I use motor coach because these buses we're the latest state-of-art vehicles.  Really posh. A couple of shots as we approached Keukenhof. Is there such a thing as a BLACK tulip?  The answer is that the  Paul Sherer tulips can get very dark, but are not quite black. Similarly,  BLUE tulips do not exist .   Nor blue or aqua orchids , Well  this article hints that you can find blue orchids , though th...