2015 European waterway cruise – Belgium – Antwerp Antwerp – Town Hall At the end of the last post we’d just crossed the border into Belgium at the Port of Antwerp. My first impressions of Belgium were somewhat marred by continuing communication...
2015 European waterway cruise – Netherlands – Dordrecht to Belgian border Wet weather gear leaving Dordrecht Dordrecht was the last large town in the Netherlands till we crossed into Belgium at Antwerp. Our route to Belgium was back onto the Oude Maas,...
2015 European Waterway Cruise – The plan comes together. Flags flying – raring to go I love it when a plan comes together! Our travel from UK to Zwartsluis went exactly to plan and we arrived back on board Shangri-La at midday on Thursday 16th July. There...
2015 European Waterway cruise – planning update Shangri La at mooring in Zwartsluis again Time flies! Just over a month to go and we should be starting the southbound trip to St-Jean-de-Losne. When I left Zwartsluis a while ago, Shangri-La was back in the water,...
European inland waterway cruising – planning for 2015 Shangri-La in 2013 We have been thinking about what to do and where to go this year in general terms for a while, but the time has come for some serious planning. The original intention had always been to...
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.