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...
Netherlands waterway cruise – Steenwijk Steenwijk – visitor mooring in town The best thing about having one’s own boat, as opposed to chartering a boat, is you can stop wherever you are as long as you want.In 2011 when we were here on our hired boat,...
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...
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.