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Maasdam
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posted 12-17-2009 04:00 AM      Profile for Maasdam   Author's Homepage   Email Maasdam   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Fore those who cannot attending the try-out you maybe cane see glimpse of it on the web cam on the ROTTERDAM pier. Special today after winter hit the Netherlands with snow. You cane choose different angles by clicking on the thumbnails below.
It start around 12.45/13.00 hrs local time.

SS ROTTERDAM netcam.

Program of the day,
11.30 arrival,
11.30/12.00 welcome,
12.00/12.45 hrs lunch a/b Spido tour boat Abel Tasman,
13.00/14.30 hrs try-outs (my pointed location Theater)
15.00 hrs end.

Of to the Rotterdam,
Greets from freezing city of Rotterdam, Ben.

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Johan
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posted 12-17-2009 04:50 AM      Profile for Johan   Email Johan   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
good luck, and keep yourself warm !
have a good time a/b SS Rotterdam !
J

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DAMBROSI
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posted 12-17-2009 10:46 AM      Profile for DAMBROSI   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thank you Ben, but I may have missed it.
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Maasdam
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posted 12-17-2009 11:02 AM      Profile for Maasdam   Author's Homepage   Email Maasdam   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Back from the The ROTTERDAM, and no I did not see much. At arrival we where directed to the Odyssey dinning room, fore coffee and tea. The room is dedicated fore congress activities as the La Fontaine dinning room. After coffee we where guided to the Spido harbor tour vessel fore a simple lunch and a short tour of the port.

After this short tour we where directed to our location on board the ROTTERDAM. First my location was the theater but changed to the YES Ritz Carlton now named Grand Ballroom. And wow in real she's more beautiful then on pictures and video. Around 13.30 the drill start by the alarm going off and within 7 minutes or so we where on the pier. We have to wait if the drill was given OK. Other wise we where to board again and do it al over. But the drill was successful. And we where not allowed back a/b the Rotterdam and guided of the pier.

But we received a Little present, and a free tour of the Rotterdam on a shoosen day after February 15 2010.

A speedy day with not very much to see. But to set food on the ROTTERDAM was fore me and many others a very emotional experience.

Here a collage of pictures shot (was not allowed but hey everybody was making pictures)
And in the video section a small video of the test.

Greetings Ben.


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posted 12-17-2009 12:55 PM      Profile for Willem        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Reading your comments about not being able to see anything of the ship, in a way I am glad I could not go to Rotterdam today.
What a disappointment would that have been :-(
And also going home would have been a disaster with lots of trains cancelled.

I too am very anxious to see what they have done with the ship, but stepping on board will not be that emotional to me. I did have that moment in July 2004 in Gibraltar, when I stepped aboard again after 45 years.

I just have to wait till the end of January.


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posted 12-17-2009 04:43 PM      Profile for DAMBROSI   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wonderful collage of photos Ben, I was hoping to see my friend Henk Timmer in the collage. I guess he didn't get in for on time.
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