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The Netherlands flag Maverick Rover World Blog Post #87 ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS  and nearby areas Rotterdam has beautiful sunsets,  a view from our window. tulips, tulips, tulips These tulips are carved wood.  we are staying just two blocks from Station Centraal,  we seem to start and end our travels from here every day. ********** Side trip to The HAGUE Peace Palace  The Hague  opened in 1913 Home of the International Court of Justice for the United Nations and Peace Palace library, among other things.   ********** M. C. Escher exhibit covering his life of  graphic arts, paintings, pen and ink drawings. He was hired by many corporations and retail companies to design their logos.  Escher's art is displayed in the former winter palace of Queen Emma of  The Netherlands, 19th C. Using some of his graphic designs, the floors were covered with cut pieces of carpet tile.  A man after Ron's own heart - Ah carpet! More pen & ink, wo...
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Maverick Rover World Blog Post #86 Celebrity Eclipse  Repositioning Cruise  (Photos of Dover England (White Cliffs)  and on to debarkation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands White Cliffs of Dover It is from here that many swimmers traverse the  English Channel for that chilly swim  from Dover to France (Cap Gris New, near Calais) The distance is 21 miles in a straight line one way  (unless the winds and tides decide to change,  at which point the swimmers are blown off course and the  journey biomes much more difficult. ) Only about 40 swimmers have every swam both directions concurrently,  but about 2,400 have made it one way  Any Takers ?    Start / Finish and Monument to swimmers Dover does have an historic area,  but otherwise unremarkable ********** The last day of the cruise is from Dover to Amsterdam, The Netherlands (we have been here before) so we immediately boarded a local train to Rotterdam,  our home for the n...
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Maverick Rover World Blog Post #85 Celebrity Eclipse  Repositioning Cruise  (Photos of  Porto, Portugal   (home of Port Wine) , some photos on board ship  & Caruña, Spain ) Beautiful blue & white, Azulejo , tiles of Porto, Portugal More Azulejo house tiles Bridge over the stunning Duoro River a local guy replacing cobble stones  after a construction project **********    Eclipse Theater evening performance of Amade, talent  extraordinaire  and we got to see them interviewed about their journey of being  performers onboard and off one more shot of Amade Boy Band Evolution in the theater on another night, amazing singers who  covered songs of The Jackson Five,  The Beatles, DooWop, BeeGees,  Jersey Boys and more. ********** City Hall in A Caruña, Spain **********                                    ...
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