Solida – our Pedro Solano 33 At long last we arrived in Urk to collect our boat for 2 weeks cruising in Holland. The Dutch are friendly and laid back – Truida, the lady at the charter base volunteered the use of her car so we could go up to the supermarket...
Marple – Lock 15 As I mentioned in the previous post, the Cheshire Ring has a lot of locks – 92 to be precise. And they come in batches. We collected our narrowboat near Congleton close to the SW end of Macclesfield, and headed off in an anticlockwise...
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.