We visited Holland and Belgium on May 5..13, 2006. The tour was sponsored by the UCLA Alumni Association and (for the most part) alumni groups from a variety of other schools such as Penn State and University of Washington. The tour was organized by Thomas Gohagan & Co.
The trip was a river cruise: we lived aboard ship, which travelled each day along the canals and rivers of the Rhine delta to a different town. The ship was the MV Heidelberg, operated by the Peter Deilmann Reederei (shipping company). It is a self-propelled river barge displacing about 2500 tons, 109 meters long, 11 meters in beam, and about 2 meters draft, with 44 crew and 110 passengers. There are 56 passenger cabins, all but two the same size, on three decks, plus a dining room, a lounge, and various amenities. Normal speed is 20 km/hour (11 knots).
These pictures were taken using a Minolta Stylus 400 digital camera, 2272x1704 pixels, JPEG compression. Photo retrieval using the intrinsic USB mass storage capability via the Linux generic USB storage driver. Editing was with GIMP v2.2.4. Copyright © 2006 by James F. Carter. Feel free to download any of the images for personal use; just give me a photo credit. Contact me for unedited images at 2272x1704 pixels (JPEG), specifying the filename shown by your browser. <jimc@math.ucla.edu>