Port des Yachts – Liege At the end of my last post, we arrived quite late, around 17.15 hrs, at Port des Yachts in Liege with the rain bucketing down. The marina, which sounded quite good from the guides, was not particularly welcoming. Not many passing...
Lovely peaceful canal By now we had a good idea how the Belgian locks and bridges worked. After consulting the maps and guides we came to the conclusion there was nowhere particularly exciting to stop at until Liege, some 130 kilometres away. And we reckoned we could...
2015 European waterway cruise – Belgium – Antwerp towards Liege via Turnhout Leaving Willemdok via Londonbrug On Thursday morning I arranged with the havenmeester for the opening of Londonbrug and Siberiabrug. Probably not necessary as a whole heap of...
2015 European waterway cruise – Belgium – Ghent Inner canals of Ghent The town of Ghent is well worth a visit. As it was way off our planned route through Belgium, we made a day trip there by train. Buildings of Ghent Time was limited so we did the tourist...
2015 European waterway cruise – Belgium – Antwerp Antwerp – Town Hall At the end of the last post we’d just crossed the border into Belgium at the Port of Antwerp. My first impressions of Belgium were somewhat marred by continuing communication...
2015 European waterway cruise – Netherlands – Dordrecht to Belgian border Wet weather gear leaving Dordrecht Dordrecht was the last large town in the Netherlands till we crossed into Belgium at Antwerp. Our route to Belgium was back onto the Oude Maas,...
My love of boats goes back to my early years when I went on holiday with my parents to Knysna in the Cape.
We stayed at a hotel on stilts, and I played in rowing boats and little motor boats on the lagoon.