2015 European waterway cruise – Belgium – Namur to Dinant Dinant – Belgium – on the River Meuse We set out quite early on the Saturday morning for the trip to Dinant. The scenery was definitely becoming more mountainous, and although it was...
2015 European waterway cruise – Belgium – Liege to Namur via Huy On the River Meuse – Belgium At Liege, the Albert Canal merges with the River Meuse. We would now stay on the Meuse until Givet at the French border, where the river becomes canalized....
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...
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.