Hi Dear Folk,
Leaving Rotterdam. Our voyage began on a beautiful and ended on a beautiful day.
Tram going across bridge.
Tug assistant leaving the docks.
If only we had been on the other side of the ship we would have seen this coming in, the old head office for the Holland America Line, which is now a hotel. We might just have had enough time to walk up here and take a look around. I think they do have a lot of old photographs of their history.
Now they're a cruise line, and their headquarters is in Seattle, but in their day they had the transatlantic immigrant shipping route as well as travelers who made that journey, jumping off from the old world to the new.
Yes it would have been iconic to look around.
It takes two hours to navigate the waterway from Rotterdam to the open ocean, so we saw a lot as we travelled along.
It was just lovely to end our voyage eating lunch on deck in the sun watching the world go by.
Container shipping and transportation.
Windmills, areas below sea level could learn a lot from the Dutch, they've been at it for a thousand years.
Modern apartment buildings.
New windmills. See these all over in the ocean, at bit weird, they must be sitting on a bank, but no land around what so ever.
Sea gates to hold back storm surges.
Car ferry and train transportation.
The beach and beach houses. Where the waterway ends and meets the open sea. It's all about holding the sea at bey.
I have enjoyed sharing our travels.
Christine
Leaving Rotterdam. Our voyage began on a beautiful and ended on a beautiful day.
Tram going across bridge.
Tug assistant leaving the docks.
If only we had been on the other side of the ship we would have seen this coming in, the old head office for the Holland America Line, which is now a hotel. We might just have had enough time to walk up here and take a look around. I think they do have a lot of old photographs of their history.
Now they're a cruise line, and their headquarters is in Seattle, but in their day they had the transatlantic immigrant shipping route as well as travelers who made that journey, jumping off from the old world to the new.
Yes it would have been iconic to look around.
It takes two hours to navigate the waterway from Rotterdam to the open ocean, so we saw a lot as we travelled along.
It was just lovely to end our voyage eating lunch on deck in the sun watching the world go by.
Container shipping and transportation.
Windmills, areas below sea level could learn a lot from the Dutch, they've been at it for a thousand years.
Modern apartment buildings.
New windmills. See these all over in the ocean, at bit weird, they must be sitting on a bank, but no land around what so ever.
Sea gates to hold back storm surges.
Car ferry and train transportation.
The beach and beach houses. Where the waterway ends and meets the open sea. It's all about holding the sea at bey.
I have enjoyed sharing our travels.
Christine
No comments:
Post a Comment