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Day 6 - A Tale of Two Trains
ByKara Monroe April 11, 2025November 11, 2026

Ready to leave London the Eurostar It’s Kara starting off today. We needed to be downstairs at the train station by 7:30am this morning so we were awake quite early. Sadly, we each slept very badly last night so, it was an especially rough start to the day to have to be up and moving so quickly. The beautiful lobby of the St. Pancras Renaissance. We went down to the lobby around 7:20am. While Gayle filled up our water bottles from the Club, I got us checked out. We then headed to the Eurostar…

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Day 7 - Exploring Amsterdam
ByKara Monroe April 10, 2025November 11, 2026

It’s Kara starting out again today. One of the ways we like to learn about a city is through its food. Fun fact, we’ve had at least two other food tours booked together, and we’ve had to cancel both of them due to delays and other issues. So, gratefully, we got up this morning to gorgeous warm weather with full sunshine and went to meet our tour guide, Roman, at 10am. (Fun Fact: It rains 266 days out of the year here, so the fact we got two beautiful days back to back is a little out of the…

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Day 8 - Let The Adventure Begin
ByKara Monroe April 9, 2025November 11, 2026

On board the AmaLucia Hi everyone. Kara starting off again today. We had, as our British friends would say, a good lay-in this morning and allowed ourselves to sleep in until about 8:30am this morning. The only thing on our agenda today was to check out of the hotel, have a nice brunch or lunch, and head to the ship. More on how that could have gone differently a bit later. Breakfast We showered, dressed, and finished packing and took our bags down to the bell stand by 11am. I checked us out…

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Day 9 - It’s Tulip (Picking) Time
ByKara Monroe April 8, 2025November 11, 2026

Besties in a field of tulips Hi all. Kara starting out again today. Our river cruise is starting out with what we’ve learned is an unusual occurrence! We have two mornings in a row that are sailing mornings. As such, we had a nice leisurely morning. Wind turbines like those we see in Indiana are even in the water here in the Netherlands. We learned that the tops of them rotate to catch the wind. I woke up at 6am and went down to the coffee machine in the lounge to get my first cup - a mocha….

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Day 10 - Go With The Flow
ByKara Monroe April 7, 2025November 11, 2026

Disney had no idea how much meaning “Going with the flow” would take on today! ADVENTURE!!! Hi all. Kara again. Let’s just say that the theme of today’s post is going to be adventure all the way through. Remember that 82 page travel guide I made for us. We threw it out the window today! Before I start today, let’s rewind back to Sunday night after dinner. We met with Adventure Guide Michaela to go over the plan for the week. We learned then we were going to be docking in Bruinisse rather than…

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Day 12 - Thurs., April 17, 2025 - An Appetite for Antwerp
ByKara Monroe April 5, 2025November 11, 2026

Entering the Groot-Bijgarden Castle. Good morning Adventurers. Kara here again to get us started today. I’m going to actually start today’s post with a little hiccup from last night . Each evening at about 6:30pm we gather together in the lounge for some complimentary cocktails (including both an alcoholic option and a mocktail option), some group celebrations led by our Adventure Guides, and a run down of the next day’s activities, also led by our Adventure Guides. If there is a photo…

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Day 13 - Fri., April 18, 2025 - Architecture-New & Old (Rotterdam & Kinderdijk)
ByKara Monroe April 4, 2025November 11, 2026

Pin of the day Hi all, Kara again. If you recall at the beginning of the cruise, we learned that rather than docking in Delft, we would be docking in Rotterdam. This was the best plan that could have happened for us. We had planned to do on our own time in Delft - which quite honestly might not have even happened as we weren’t all that excited about Delft. However, we were thrilled to get the opportunity to explore Rotterdam on our own. We decided not to set an alarm, knowing that we would…

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Day 14 - Keukenhof Gardens
ByKara Monroe April 3, 2025November 11, 2026

Hi friends. This is future Kara writing to you from July 2025 - exactly three months to the day from when we returned from this trip. Posting these blog posts has been a labor of love that has taken longer than either of us would like. And, now, as we have reached the end of the trip, we’ve realized that we didn’t write anything for this day or our trip home (which thankfully was mostly non-eventful with just the usual horrific wait to get through customs in Chicago and catching the last…

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March 2025 Reading Life Roundup
ByKara Monroe April 2, 2025November 11, 2026

The Monthly Reading Report automatically generated by the Bookly app. I use Bookly Pro daily to track all of my reading! My reading…

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