Cruising the Netherland Inland Waterways Waiting at the Blokzijl lock Got going just before 1300 – or so we thought! After hours of work, new ignition switch and all sorts of other bits – turned the key and – nothing. Back to the ‘hot...
Netherlands waterway cruising On the Steenwijkerdiep On Sundays the bridges and locks here only operate from 9 am, so we had a slightly later start, and got going about 0945. We planned to go the slightly longer way round to Zwartsluis, via Blokzijl, still a fairly...
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...
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.