Rob & Liz's Blessed Adventures

Hi all, Well our cruise finally came to an end yesterday. It was a blast and we both had a great time over the 2 weeks. Too many highlights to mention but we did enjoy the smaller towns we visited on the river. We did a couple of things yesterday before we disembarked today. We had a canal boat cruise through the narrow canals here. Did you know 1/3 of the Netherlands is water?  They have at least 3 unusual things here. 1 - More bikes than people. Bikes have more rights than people!! They have special lanes all through the city as car spaces are very few and expensive to own or park. Around $8-12 AUD a hour to park. Most people have 2 bikes, 1 a each end of the journey so you ride to the train or whatever then you leave that bike there go to work etc and pick up your other bike at the other end. Rain hail or shine they ride bikes and are crazy like Parisians in their cars!! You have to watch out for bike more than cars!! This is at the train station only...

Hi all, Today we are in Cologne Germany famous the perfume 4711 Ice Cologne, remember it? It is also the 4th biggest city in Germany. Also the the home to Bayer the big pharmaceutical company that make lots of drugs. (no not that sort). We got to take a another walking tour around the city. After that was a tour of the markets where we had some more gluhwein. We did check out another huge church here unreal they are inside. It was cold raining and windy so we were not all that comfortable, so we did what we could and headed back the the warm ship. We headed off shortly after lunch on our way to Amsterdam. We crossed the border into the Netherlands around 8pm and are slowing sailing down stream. We will arrive there in the morning to take 2 tours. Bayer stack (maybe not in use anymore) Tonight we raged a bit. Sang in the choir on board singing Christmas carols then after dinner we had a bit of a dance and sang along to some modern music. elephants...

Hi lovelies, Today was another magical day. We visited 2 small fairy-tale like villages. Robbie was a little hard to move as he had spent a large part of the night in the Horizon Lounge belting out tunes with fellow passengers in a karaoke night. Beautiful sight early morning Our first stop was the beautiful town of Wertheim. We wandered from the boat into the village and checked out some of the amazing buildings. Postcard perfect stuff The narrowest house One of the features of this village were that some buildings had a barn attached to them. This could be to the side of the residence, or the ground floor of the residence. The smell would have been quite rural. Glad that now the barns are empty. Another was that they often build the lower part of the building smaller narrower than the upper floors. So the buildings kind of looked like they should be upside down. This was because you were taxed on the amount of land your ground floor covered, ...