Astrid and Ronnies travels

Celebrity Eclipse. This was from 25th April till 9 May .  We were up at 3am. to get a taxi to the Ben Gurion Airport for a 4  hour flight to  Amsterdam  with El Al.  There are cheaper airlines but only the Israeli airline s fly if there is a war on. We were meant to be in Amsterdam at the Jakarta Hotel for 2 nights but the cruise ship was delayed in dry docks and so they paid for our 3rd  night at the hotel including meals and we got compensation as we were unable to see the port of Waterford Ireland From the hotel we could watch enormous barges carrying building sand or gravel each one  probably more that the capacity of 20 trucks. Close up you can see the bargee has a whole home on it including gardens and bicycles  some even had a car on it. It also carries a crane to load and unload. The Dutch are always reclaiming  land always taking soil to fill polders in the Ijsselmeer, perhaps that was the purpose. Koningdag  . That Saturday was...

 The Liverpool  and Leicester  Days 1981 to 2000 28/5/18 The first time Astrid and I went to England was in summer 1981 when she was pregnant with Tal who was born in March 1982.  We arrived at Luton airport and waited out in the cold for he passing National Bus night bus. This took us to Sheffield which was the hub and we waited there inside a garage till all the bus arrived and they swopped passengers and we arrived in Liverpool via Wales and Brenda was waiting to collect us. At this time the famous Cavern of Beatle fame was being demolished and replaced by a new building called Beatle Walks? After a few days we took a National bus and changed busses in Manchester and went to Scotland, saw Edinburgh and then went on bus to Perth, Sterling, Aberdeen and finally Inverness. In those days we managed to get student cards to travel a reduced rates and you simple arrived at the station or bus station and there was a desk where you told the person in charge you wanted a BB...