Dutch Class » Holland America Line http://www.dutchclass.co.uk Learning Dutch in Oxford Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:01:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Holland America Line’s Eurodam in the News http://www.dutchclass.co.uk/2008/06/30/holland-america-lines-eurodam-in-the-news/ http://www.dutchclass.co.uk/2008/06/30/holland-america-lines-eurodam-in-the-news/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:16:39 +0000 Hollander http://www.dutchclass.co.uk/?p=67 It looks like the Holland America’s Line’s new ship the Eurodam which I wrote about yesterday is to be named tomorrow and it has its own news website and a pretty brochure site too. The picture from yesterday’s article is below. For once Dutch Class has the jump on Wikipedia as they don’t have a photo yet.

It was also featured on the main Dutch evening news today.

Just for balance we’ll include a picture of an appropriately named slightly smaller ship moored not far away. In its own way it looks just as nice.

The Ship Rotterdam

 

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The ship in the background is the Eurodam, a ship of the Holland America line. It is actually hard to do justice to the sheer size of it in either words or pictures but have a look at the one below. The two skyscrapers to either side are not exactly small…

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