{"id":918,"date":"2008-07-03T08:24:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/918"},"modified":"2008-08-07T18:20:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T16:20:20","slug":"eurodam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/918","title":{"rendered":"Eurodam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/eurodam1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Eurodam1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/eurodam1-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Eurodam1\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Xander and I were driving home from town and as we were coming along towards the Erasmus Bridge I noticed this huge building\u2026 and for a second I thought, where the hell did that come from so quick!?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when I realized that it was a ship at the cruise terminal.\u00a0\u00a0 We get a lot of cruise ships coming here into Rotterdam but I\u2019ve never seen one that just blocked out everything behind it like this one.\u00a0 I really wish I had my camera on me.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was reading the news on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.nl\" target=\"_blank\">Expatica<\/a> and saw that it was actually a brand new ship!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ROTTERDAM &#8211; The cruise ship Eurodam sailed into its home port of Rotterdam on Sunday, attracting a large crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The largest passenger ship ever to be registered under a Dutch flag, the new Holland-America Line ship was built in Italy, and sailed from Southampton on Saturday. It is the 14th ship in the Holland America Line\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 300 metres long, the ship has more than 1,000 cabins, three swimming pools, five restaurants and a casino. The Eurodam will be named by Queen Beatrix on Tuesday and will set off on its first cruise next weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I had my camera with me because the above photo (that I scabbed off the net) really doesn\u2019t do the ship justice.\u00a0 It\u2019s absolutely friggin\u2019 massive.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to try to get some photos before it sets sail.<\/p>\n<p>Oooooooh wouldn\u2019t it be nice to be ON it though?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Xander and I were driving home from town and as we were coming along towards the Erasmus Bridge I noticed this huge building\u2026 and for a second I thought, where the hell did that come from so quick!? That\u2019s when I realized that it was a ship at the cruise terminal.\u00a0\u00a0 We get a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59,33],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-dutch-news","tag-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}