Netherlands Trip March 22 - May 7 2003
also Antwerpen, Ghent, and Brugge Belgium
Note:
On many photographs, such
as this one, you will see a band of text running across the screen at
the top and bottom of the image. These are "water marks". The device
that I was storing my "original" images onto failed. I lost about
200 images because of this. Additionally, I was using a test program to convert
the "original" image format into a "display" format and
that program puts a water mark in the form of two white bands with gray text
into the "display" image. By the time I discovered this, the only
remaining versions of those lost images were those generated by the test software
with the two water mark bands. Rather than not being able to show these, I've
elected to just retain them with an explanation of why this occurred.
RIVER TRIP MAP: Shows the route taken by
the Amadeus Classic
GROUP PICTURES:
These are the best of my best images. 48 shots in total. I'll be putting
in de-
scriptions as I go. For those on the trip, this should jog memories.
The following pages have lots more images on a day by day basis.
Amsterdam Netherlands with views from hotel and streets around the hotel
Carnival images in plaza in front of hotel
Good eats at Manderin restaurant with Eula
Night views from Hotel and Street
Tour of Keukenhof Gardens.
Open from March 21 to May 18 each year
fantastic floral displays of tulips and other flowers.
Float decoration for Tulip Parade
Five Flies restaurant
Canal boat tour
Walking tour around hotel area
Floating flower market
Rijks Museum (paintings, paintings & more paintings)
Frans Hals Museum
Frans Hals Museum Concert
Julian Herman - Violin: Concertmaster Netherlands Philharmonic
Violin was made around 1700 by Giovanni Baptista
Rogeri in Brescia
Hanspeter Spannring -
Flute: First Flautist Netherlands Philharmonic
Yoshi Kazama- Harpsicord: European
Union Baroque Orchestra
International Flower Auction
Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer
Hoorn where we saw a museum with archiological artifacts
and listened to a lecture about the draining of the land.
Departed Hoorn early in the AM, crossing the Markermeer to cruise
down the Ijssel river
Walking tour of Kampen
Tour of Apeldoorn/Palais Het Loo
Private tour of Castle Middachten
Kroller-Muller Museum (Lots of Van Goghs here)
This redefined my perception of him
Open Air Museum (Openlucht)
Fireworks for Queen's Birthday ending the day
Morning Cruise to Schoonhoven
Walking tour
Visit to Gouda
Cruising onto Rotterdam
Many pictures of group and crew of ship
Night shots of Rotterdam
Last day on ship
Visit to Delft
Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague
Repair of "The Goldfinch" painting
More paintings by Rembrant & Vermeer
Cruise of Rotterdam harbor and then
on to Dordrecht where we'll disembark
Crew puts on a show for us. Fun!!
Disembarked ship
Drive to Antwerpen Belgium
Rubenshuis Museum
Mansion Estate for Lunch
Brugge Belgium (May 04)
Memling Museum
15th Century panel by Hans Memling
Walking about Brugge
Michelangelo's Madonna
Climbing the Clock Tower
Ghent Belgium "Spiritual heart of Flanders"
Out final dinner with the group
My walking tour of Brugge
Chapel of the Holy Blood
Woman making Lace
Carriage Ride
Home to Cincinnati (May 07)
Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague Netherlands
With photographic details of how was shot