The Fleet Report and Daily for Friday June 7th, 2024

[sailingdutchy]

Just a few more pics from Kings Wharf of the Port area which we visited this year while on the Nieuw Statendam crossing the Ocean once more to Rotterdam 

 

 

 

 Garden club ........whas that ???

 

 

The Royal Naval Dockyard on the far left thats next to Kings Wharf  , Hamilton just to the right of the break and St George on the far right  , just to give you an idea .

 

 

Lots of shopping and a few restaurants in the Port 

 

 

 

 

Nice little museum  “shop “ bring lots of money ……

 

 

 

 

 

Chau , chau ....till next time 

Tony 😁

[bennybear]

Good morning and thanks all!  
@aliaschief what a lovely ending to your wonderful adventure!  Have sure appreciated you taking us along!  It looks sublime! 
@LambKnuckles sorry but I couldn’t help laughing,  Canadians have to roll with all seasons on any given day.   I must have a dozen different types of jackets.  
@Haljo1935 oh dear!  Kidney stones are no fun,  excruciating!  Prayers they pass soon, and appendicitis is no picnic either.  Girl, you sure know how to have a good time! 
@marshhawk sending lots of hugs and prayers!  I hope you can get some answers.
 

@Haljo1935 and @kazu thanks for your concern,  they have located the location of the break, these pipes are big enough to drive a truck through, an unprecedented situation.   We have 1.6 million relying on our water.   Sadly, we have no idea how long the repairs will take, it  will not be over in a couple of days.  Very scary situation.   Sadly, last night many didn’t observe the restrictions and our water usage actually surged.  I am glad I always keep an Emergency supply of water.   We are lucky in that we can head to our trailer for awhile.  
 

On a happier note, we enjoyed our time in one of our beautiful national parks. 
 

 

Edited June 7 by bennybear

[JazzyV]

Good morning. Thanks for the Fleet Report/Daily @richwmn and to all contributors.

I still have one working DVR and need to copy some tapes to DVD. Caring and Food Safety are both important things we need daily. And it's National Donut Day! Good quote. Maybe for the meal, pass on the drink (basil) and wine. Kings Wharf was the first stop on my TA last year, my first time in Bermuda. A good day in history.

 

It's windy here, but at least not raining for now. Yesterday I was sort of a couch potato, mainly reading. I took my RA shot earlier in the day, as I was afraid after being off it for so long, I might have a bigger reaction. I get hives at the injection site, but no generalized reaction, but didn't want to be asleep if something developed. I took 50mg of benadryl, which had me nodding off in the evening. At bedtime I took another 50mg. Despite that I had a small itchy hive on my leg this morning. I'm trying Claritin this AM so I won't be so sleepy, and will take benadryl before bed. No great plans for today; maybe just tidying up. I started feeding my sourdough starter again, and may make some bread tomorrow, for the first time in almost a year.

 

I've been thinking that we haven't heard from @cruzn single in a long time. It looks like she hasn't posted since November.

 

@StLouisCruisers I hope you can make some progress on your cross stitch project.

@Haljo1935 I'm glad you got the bad pain checked out. So, it was kidney stones? They can be really painful as they pass. I recall grown men weeping in the ER from the pain. Did they give you a strainer to catch the stones, so they can be analyzed for type?

@aliaschief Hard to believe your great cruise is ending. Thanks for taking us along with your photos.

@marshhawk Prayers for strength for you as you deal with everything. I'm glad the behavioral specialist called this morning, and could see what the issues are.

@ottahand7 I'm glad your back is feeling better; the prednisone must be helping.

@cunnorl I was holding my breath until Starliner got those thrusters back online. Congrats on the new car! Always fun (except for the payments).

@Seasick Sailor Good news that your ankle is feeling better. 

@Nickelpenny Oh no on ripping up a tire yesterday!

@sailingdutchy Thanks for the great photos.

@bennybear What an awful situation with the water. I've not heard of pipes that big. I hope it's fixed soon.

@kazu I hope you have less pain today.

 

Prayers for the Care List and Cheers for those Celebrating. 

 

Edited June 7 by JazzyV

[dfish]

@Haljo1935 I had repeated kidney stones and part of the problem was that my parathyroid glands were overactive.  They leech calcium from the body and help form those stones. There is also a family history of kidney stones.  My grandmother spent her honeymoon in the hospital due to kidney stones and eventually had one kidney removed.  4 out of 6 of us siblings have had kidney stones.  

 

The biggest thing you can do is to stay hydrated.  Add some lemon or lime to your water as the acid helps prevent the formation of the stones.  It won't really eat away at the ones you have, but can help prevent them from growing larger.  I do the lemon/lime thing to this day.  

 

After my third bout with kidney stones my doctor ordered hydrochlorothiazide for me.  It will help prevent kidney stones from forming.  

 

So, right now:  water, water, water.  That will help move the stone along.  

[JazzyV]

On my TA on Celebrity from FLL to Rotterdam, our first stop was at Kings Wharf, Bermuda.

 

Apex docked

 

Spirit of Bermuda and Clock Towers,  Royal Navy Dockyard

 

 

Interesting tree

 

The VIctuallying Yard

 

 

View from the Ferry as we go to Hamilton

 

Against Da Tide Sculpture

 

Colorful buildings in Hamilton

 

Colorful guitars in shop window

 

Expensive Hamilton condos seen from the ferry, as we go back to Kings Wharf

[smitty34877]

@Seasick Sailor , Joy, thank you so much for the recipe link. The teenager requested this earlier in the week. I have the beans soaking so we could try it together tomorrow. If it is your husband’s favorite that means a lot!

[Cruising-along]

1 hour ago, sailingdutchy said:

Garden club ........whas that ???

 

 

 

That's a Sago Palm -- apparently poisonous to dogs!

[NextOne]

The driveway project is halfway done -- luckily the weather today is the best it's been all week! The workers are wasting no time getting the job done.

I have a date for my hip surgery -- not until August 20! I asked to be considered if there was a cancellation earlier because I have to attend a church women's convention in mid-September and my TA cruise leaves Rotterdam on Oct. 12!  I'd like to be comfortably mobile by then.

@marshhawk I'm so sorry -- here are a whole bunch of virtual hugs. Apply as needed!

Prayers raised for all of my Daily friends in need and cheers for all the are celebrating!

[grapau27]

1 hour ago, sailingdutchy said:

Just a few more pics from Kings Wharf of the Port area which we visited this year while on the Nieuw Statendam crossing the Ocean once more to Rotterdam 

 

 

 

 

 Garden club ........whas that ???

 

 

 

 

The Royal Naval Dockyard on the far left thats next to Kings Wharf  , Hamilton just to the right of the break and St George on the far right  , just to give you an idea .

 

 

Lots of shopping and a few restaurants in the Port 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice little museum  “shop “ bring lots of money ……

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chau , chau ....till next time 

Tony 😁

Great selection of photos Tony.

[grapau27]

@Suslor

@swin26.

Best wishes for a fantastic cruise on Rotterdam tomorrow.

[Vict0riann]

Good morning, Dailyites, thanks for all the news.  Prayers for Annie and Chuck, @Haljo1935, anbd the others suffering.  A little good news here - DD went to the hospital to see the surgeon and check her humerus, he says the bone is healed and just to continue her exercises.  She is still uncomfortable, but I guess it's muscles, tendons, etc. so she must keep trying to do things.  

And I had a call from the nurse to discuss what's going to happen to me.  All very encouraging!

 

We have been to Bermuda a few times, twice to King's Wharf, including this Spring with Tony and Martha on Nieuw Statendam.  My pictures are like the others, but I do remember a guide telling us once that, because of the shortage of fresh water in Bermuda, every building must maintain a sparkling white roof and have ways to collect any rainwater that falls.  Maybe @bennybear is going to have to suggest her city do the same!

 

A few Bermudian (?) roofs -

 

 

 

 

Even the port building

 

 

Many years ago, Pat bought his blue hat in Hamilton, it has been his signature for a long time, and as he usually races on ahead of me, a lot of times it is his proof of presence!  The hat is getting threadbare now after many washings, so we looked for one in the shops this time, but no luck.  Maybe we'll have to stop travelling...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[swin26]

31 minutes ago, grapau27 said:

@Suslor

@swin26.

Best wishes for a fantastic cruise on Rotterdam tomorrow.

Thank you.  We have had 2 wonderful days in Belgium and have an early train to Rotterdam tomorrow morning 

[Crazy For Cats]

Good Afternoon, thanks for today’s daily fleet report.  We are checked in at our hotel. We stopped at Shady Maple and picked up some whoopie pies and one is already gone.  Then we had lunch/dinner at New Holland Family Restaurant, the food and service both good. I especially liked their baked corn.  Long ago I sold vcr’s in Leola, some interesting stories over the years.  We’ll soon head over to the grandkids for the tournament.

[kochleffel]

Thinking of yesterday's discussion of Zuiderdam's having docked at Oceankaj in Copenhagen: there is a thread in the forum of aNother Cruise Line accusing that line of choosing cheap industrial ports instead of nice cruise ports, and calling it bait and switch. This season, Seabourn, Viking, and AIDA are the only cruise lines using Langelinie for day calls at Copenhagen. All others are using Oceankaj.

 

It is true that Oceankaj is in a huge port complex, the rest of which handles cargo, including container ships, roros, and tankers, but the Oceankaj docks are used only by cruise ships.

[kochleffel]

Shavuot decorations

 

The decorations represent four loosely related themes of Shavuot. Chronologically, they are the festival of first fruits, a harvest festival defined in the Torah, seven weeks after Passover; the revelation at Sinai, calculated to coincide with that; the Book of Ruth, one of the readings for Shavuot, perhaps chosen because the denouement takes place during the barley harvest; and eating dairy foods, on the theory that the Hebrews, after receiving the commandments, realized that any meat they had wasn't kosher.

 

From left to right: a giclee print of a painting of Ruth and Naomi; the Ten Commandments (bookends); a sheaf of wheat, since I haven't found the barley, but wheat is another of the Seven Species of biblical food crops; a box of Lactaid, representing the hardship that Shavuot imposes on those of us who are lactose-intolerant; pomegranates, figs, and grapes, three more of the Seven Species; a 19th-century French painting depicting Moses and Aaron at Mount Sinai; and olives, another of the Seven Species. I'm told that the fruits are supposed to be in a gold or silver basket, which I neither have nor want. This is a hammered-aluminum tray that was a wedding present to my parents.

[SusieKIslandGirl]

1 hour ago, Vict0riann said:

Many years ago, Pat bought his blue hat in Hamilton, it has been his signature for a long time, and as he usually races on ahead of me, a lot of times it is his proof of presence!  The hat is getting threadbare now after many washings, so we looked for one in the shops this time, but no luck.  Maybe we'll have to stop travelling..

 

 

Amazon has several that are very similar. Would hate to see you stop traveling 😊!

[dfish]

Ok, the pecan pie cake is done.  Lots of work to this one.  It is a brown sugar cake with a brown butter/brown sugar icing and pecan pie filling on top and between the layers.

 

[sailingdutchy]

49 minutes ago, kochleffel said:

Thinking of yesterday's discussion of Zuiderdam's having docked at Oceankaj in Copenhagen: there is a thread in the forum of aNother Cruise Line accusing that line of choosing cheap industrial ports instead of nice cruise ports, and calling it bait and switch. This season, Seabourn, Viking, and AIDA are the only cruise lines using Langelinie for day calls at Copenhagen. All others are using Oceankaj.

 

It is true that Oceankaj is in a huge port complex, the rest of which handles cargo, including container ships, roros, and tankers, but the Oceankaj docks are used only by cruise ships.

 

Well I beg to differ this is not a cheap industrial Port what is built here in Copenhagen , they also built a lot of the infrastructure for good transportation plus there is also a lot of space to move many large office buildings out of the city into this area , We have walked it and it is very impressive .

On the discussion yesterday about Oceankaj  nobody mentioned that in a short walking distance there also is a brand new Metro line already working  which will also be extended to get right to Oceankaj  this Metro brings people in a few minutes to the downtown or Osterport , again all in walking distance  close to the Little Mermaid and / or  Oster Sagade to the canal tour boats . Denmark did a fantastic job gaining all this land so they can handle all the larger cruise ships that visit this city .

Also for now there are 2 bus lines going to and from the port Line 25 and Line 164 but cities like Copenhagen does not want busses nor a lot of car traffic into the city anymore . 

Edited June 7 by sailingdutchy

[smitty34877]

9 minutes ago, dfish said:

Ok, the pecan pie cake is done.  Lots of work to this one.  It is a brown sugar cake with a brown butter/brown sugar icing and pecan pie filling on top and between the layers.

 

Wow! That is beautiful and I am sure it will be very tasty!

[RedneckBob]

17 minutes ago, dfish said:

Ok, the pecan pie cake is done.  Lots of work to this one.  It is a brown sugar cake with a brown butter/brown sugar icing and pecan pie filling on top and between the layers.

 

How many calories per bite (small)?

[summer slope]

19 minutes ago, dfish said:

Ok, the pecan pie cake is done.  Lots of work to this one.  It is a brown sugar cake with a brown butter/brown sugar icing and pecan pie filling on top and between the layers.

 

WOW!

[kochleffel]

It will definitely be more convenient when the new Metro line reaches Oceankaj.

 

I wonder what the person would have thought about Civitavecchia, which handles all kinds of ship traffic and is way more inconvenient for Rome.

 

[Seasick Sailor]

4 hours ago, smitty34877 said:

@Seasick Sailor , Joy, thank you so much for the recipe link. The teenager requested this earlier in the week. I have the beans soaking so we could try it together tomorrow. If it is your husband’s favorite that means a lot!

 

Terri, when the beans are done, I mash some of them up to make it a bit thicker. Sometimes Ill add a ham hock and do without the sausage. Now Allen wants me to make it. LOL. 

[Seasick Sailor]

57 minutes ago, kochleffel said:

Shavuot decorations

 

The decorations represent four loosely related themes of Shavuot. Chronologically, they are the festival of first fruits, a harvest festival defined in the Torah, seven weeks after Passover; the revelation at Sinai, calculated to coincide with that; the Book of Ruth, one of the readings for Shavuot, perhaps chosen because the denouement takes place during the barley harvest; and eating dairy foods, on the theory that the Hebrews, after receiving the commandments, realized that any meat they had wasn't kosher.

 

From left to right: a giclee print of a painting of Ruth and Naomi; the Ten Commandments (bookends); a sheaf of wheat, since I haven't found the barley, but wheat is another of the Seven Species of biblical food crops; a box of Lactaid, representing the hardship that Shavuot imposes on those of us who are lactose-intolerant; pomegranates, figs, and grapes, three more of the Seven Species; a 19th-century French painting depicting Moses and Aaron at Mount Sinai; and olives, another of the Seven Species. I'm told that the fruits are supposed to be in a gold or silver basket, which I neither have nor want. This is a hammered-aluminum tray that was a wedding present to my parents.

 

Amazing!

[MISTER 67]

10 hours ago, LambKnuckles said:

 

I don't know how to respond to someone, IN JUNE, saying they need a jacket to go outside!!!  

In Texas, in June, the only reason for a jacket is to go inside where someone has the air-conditioning too low for me!!!

 

HUGS and Bless you!!!  I can only dream and wish for those cooler mornings!!!

Same here in Florida, in fact today on the golf course was a bit tough with no breeze at all to combat the 95 degrees we played through, the humidity was quite a bit higher also.

Edited June 7 by MISTER 67