Netherlands inland waterway cruise – Delft to Leiden Rijn-Schiekanaal – new bridge being built Thursday 3rd July We left Delft at our usual sort of time, about 09.40. The weather was perfect, sunny and hot with no wind. The route to Leiden was along the...
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...
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...
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.