Cuxhaven has been a very useful stop-over. Lots of jobs that have been lingering (for several years in some cases) have now got done, but Anne was now heading out to the boat via Bremen. She was visiting a friend, so we arranged to have a day out in Bremen. …
After being in the Baltic for many years, it always comes as something of a shock to realise that there are tides. A couple of days in the inland waters of the Netherlands does nothing to help with this misconception, so it was a steep learning curve to start planning …
After a very peaceful night on the canal-side, we didn’t have to make such an early start today. The bridges around Leeuwarden start opening at 9am, so we left Wergea at 08.25 and with immaculate timing arrived at the first bridge around 09.02. It opened almost immediately and from there …
Charmary is moving again …. somehow it feels momentous to be sailing again after nearly three years. Well, I say sailing, we didn’t actually hoist the sails at all, but we did motor 40 miles! We left Enkhuizen at 07.15 and the weather did nothing to match our excitement at …
At last – we are back on the boat. After nearly three years we have finally got to see that the boat still exists which is just as well as we have been paying to store it throughout the pandemic. It turned out that we decided to arrive on Konigsdag …
