River Cruising with GCCL

Flying into Amsterdam

In November, Grand Circle Cruise Lines sent me on the last half of their river cruise, Romance of the Rhine and Mosel, to experience the trip and the ship.  

Bus transfer from Frankfurt to the Mosel River

American military cemetery in Luxembourg

My cabin on the MS River Melody...
If you're new to Grand Circle Travel, mention customer # 946347 when calling, and they'll give each new traveler a $100 discount off their first trip.  That's in addition to any other savings that are available.

Mural of Beethoven in his hometown of Bonn, Germany

The cathedral in Cologne

In Nijmegen

A resident and caretaker of the historic Kinderdijk windmills in the Netherlands

The guild houses in the main square in Antwerp

Antwerp, city of dark chocolate and Belgian beer

A girl drawing a heart with chalk in Antwerp...

jfjo euro tour #2

some images from the Nov. '06 travels...

Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport

From hotel window in Berlin...

train window somewhere in germany
more in this series

The Fred in Utrecht

european tour with jfjo #1

In 2006, I started managing my brother's band the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey full time. In March, after the group debuted at the Blue Note in NYC, we landed in Italy and went on to the Netherlands, Germany and Finland. One of my Italian friends invited me to be part of a group exhibition that he was organizing in Rotterdam and somehow my brother Brian and I both made our artistic debuts in the Netherlands in March '06. Tour managing kept me very stressed and sleep-deprived but I did mange to come away with some pictures from the tour.

JFJO at the Lantaren in Rotterdam

JFJO in St. Mark's Square in Venice
(this picture appeared in some jazz publications)

Piazza di San Marco, Venezia

outside our hotel outside venice. the receptionist was showing the maintenance guy how to prune the trees?

Brian in Bergamo - one of the many cities we visited just because RyanAir flew there.