Netherlands waterway cruise – Steenwijk Steenwijk – visitor mooring in town The best thing about having one’s own boat, as opposed to chartering a boat, is you can stop wherever you are as long as you want.In 2011 when we were here on our hired boat,...
Deck crew ready for action It actually didn’t matter where we were heading – it was just so wonderful to be back on the water!! As I mentioned in the previous post, various circumstances dictated that we simply didn’t have time to get to Amsterdam...
Shangri La heading to the water – Karen looking on. It’s been another couple of frustrating days, but we are finally back in the water with nearly everything back working properly. Monday started off with Eric, the mechanic from de Kranerweerd coming...
Back aboard Shangri La 2 At last the 2014 cruising year has started. Mixed feelings at the moment – thrilled to be back on board, but most disappointed that not much of the work that had been promised would be done is even started, let alone finished. So we flew...
2013 – wonderful memories Time flies! Already nearly time for us to head north again, and get Shangri-La 2 back in the water for this year’s cruising. Before we left the her at the end of last year, I gave a whole long job list to Wim at de Kranerweerd....
Netherlands inland waterway cruise To see part 10 – click here To go to beginning – click here Shangri La heading to the crane So we were now back in Zwartsluis. I had kept my RYA cruising log going, and now filled in the season’s summary:...
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.