Our first day in Barcelona.
We arrived earlier than expected and we were already docked when I got up. Mid-morning the Holland America ship Zuiderdam arrived and docked next to us with the backs of the ships facing each other.
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| Docked at our terminal |
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| The moon and Venus visible to the east |
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| The terminal next to us where the Holland America ship Zuiderdam will dock. We will be back to back |
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| Many preparation for the show. Strings of flags going up. |
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| Some color of the sunrise showing. |
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| A jet contrail in the pink sunrise |
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| The sun starting to appear |
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| There will be 6 other large cruise ships in port today with a total estimated 23,000 passengers. This is one of them arriving. |
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| This one will dock next to the front of our ship. It backs in between us and a cargo ship across from us. |
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| Our gangway is in place, |
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| The Zuiderdam arriving |
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| She is turning around so she can back into the terminal next to us |
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| Their back deck was crowed as was ours |
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| Our captain and cruise director watching |
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| Supplies waiting for us |
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| our ships back to back |
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| The port had banners acknowledging our meet-up. Kathy and I just went out into the terminal to see what shops were there. Passengers on both Holland America ships were allowed to go back and forth betwenn the ships. We went over to visit friends we had from our 2019 and 2023 World Cruises, They had an afternoon tea we could attend |
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| Sunset approaching over the hill next to us |
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| The famous and still unfinished "The Sagrada Familia" church in the distance |
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| The Meet-up Parties on each ship getting started. |
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| The Captain and his wife (who just joined the ship today) dancing |
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| The Captain dancing withe the new President of Holland America who joined for the festivities |
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| The Captrain spoke |
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| The Holland America President Beth Bodensteiner offers a toast |
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Thank you for the drone pictures! Bravo! I think beats fireworks. TP
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