Viking River Cruises : Amsterdam Christening ships is a tradition that's thousands of years old.

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and significant port and privileged-access destinations. They gallantly smashed champagne bottles against the ships’ hulls, after which there was a post-christening reception held in the Amsterdam cruise terminal.  We guests then enjoyed a divine dinner and a maiden voyage around the Amsterdam harbor.

As evening drew near, I thought on the words of a poem by Hendrik Marsman called “Memory of Holland:”

The sky hangs low and slowly the sun

by mists of all colors is stifled and greyed,

and in all the regions the voice of the water

with its endless disasters is feared and obeyed.

With the Viking Longships' meaningful and heartfelt ceremonies and the godmothers’ blessings, there will be no endless disasters! The mists were banished, the greyed skies cast out and at close of day, in the far distance – a rainbow.

If You Go:
www.vikingrivercruises.com

 

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