Our last blog about Haarlem was the day that we boarded the River Empress for our 8 day cruise of the Netherlands. We dropped our luggage off in the morning and spent most of the day in Haarlem. Back on board, we met up with Bobbie and Dave, friends from Tennessee. We met them on a cruise in 2013. We entertained them in Sydney in 2016 and have always kept in touch. When they heard we were taking this cruise, they decided to join us. Good fun Democrats who d...

Our last blog about Haarlem was the day that we boarded the River Empress for our 8 day cruise of the Netherlands. We dropped our luggage off in the morning and spent most of the day in Haarlem. Back on board, we met up with Bobbie and Dave, friends from Tennessee. We met them on a cruise in 2013. We entertained them in Sydney in 2016 and have always kept in touch. When they heard we were taking this cruise, they decided to join us. Good fun Democrats who d...

There is no way I'm going to be able to catch up on this blog. Now on board the River Empress, I've finally slipped into holiday mode. Sightseeing, meals and Drambuie cocktails have rendered me .... relaxed. I will try to post photo albums and a couple of blogs about amazing sights however. Haarlem is only 20km west of Amsterdam, and while the locals might beg to differ, seems like a satellite suburb of Amsterdam. I mean, why would you want to live in Amsterd...

Ches, Gavin and Orta here. Signing in from Amsterdam. 33 hours in transit from Sydney Airport to Schiphol Airport via Incheon Airport. Just the three of us this time, as Tom was pensioned off when we moved into our retirement apartment. Tom Tom had been made redundant when most rental cars were fitted with satnav and certainly with the advent of Google maps. He'd never been completely reliable as you might remember from our holidays in Italy in particular. Orta ...