Camping on Shangri La 2 The last few days have been a roller coaster of emotions! We have owned Shangri La 2 for a full year, and yet have not actually done any cruising on her. If you have followed the blog to any degree, you will know that terrible weather, ie...
63 Degrees North just before midnight! Back offshore, working again. At latitude 63 degrees, in the North Sea, we are almost in the land of the midnight sun, so it never gets properly dark. I have been making good use of the extra time – busy planning our first...
Sunset in the North Sea Back in the North Sea again, but working rather than messing about in boats. All part of the plan though. As someone once remarked, a boat is just a hole in the water into which you throw money! So this needs to be done. Even though we are a...
Zwartsluis – public jetty Well, here we are in Holland. But spring has certainly not sprung, so Shangri La will stay on dry land for a few more weeks. First part of plan went okay – hired a car and came across from UK on the ferry – brought all the...
View from our present house in Cape Town Belated wishes for 2013. I have been pretty quiet of late, mainly because I haven’t been doing any Waterway Wandering of any sort at all. What we HAVE been doing is selling our house in Cape Town, and buying a...
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.