Netherlands inland waterway trip – Gorinchem to s’Hertogenbosch Heading up the Waal River Monday 1st to Wednesday 3rd September 2014 Monday was a lovely day – fine and clear and warm with very little wind – ideal for boating. On the down side,...
Netherlands Inland waterway trip – Vianen to Gorinchem Windmill along the Merwede Kanaal Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st August 2014 Another rainy day! Our water was getting low and we wanted to take advantage of the un-metered water. We moved Shangri La to the...
Netherlands waterway cruise – on to Vianen Amsterdam-Rijn Kanaal At the end of the last post, we had left Utrecht. I omitted to mention then that we had to lock down through Noordesluis to enter the Amsterdam-Rijn Kanaal. The Amsterdam-Rijn Kanaal is very wide,...
Netherlands Waterway cruise – Utrecht Shangri La in Utrecht Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th August 2014 The trip from Breukelen had been quite short, so we were tied up in Utrecht by just after 1 pm. Like most of the public moorings in the big towns or cities the...
Wonderful present from our guests I absolutely love being aboard Shangri La and playing boats. This all actually takes up a lot of time, so I don’t get time to write the blogs. Which is why I’ve spent the last few weeks in Cape Town writing the weekly...
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.