Category: Shensi travels

(Alphen aan den Rijn is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, between Leiden and Utrecht, situated on

Spent a lovely couple of days in Lisse (a town south west of Amsterdam, known for the Keukenhof gardens, which has millions of spring-flowering bulbs

Leaving Dordrecht, we eased our way into the very busy waterway towards Rotterdam with a massive amount of activity around us until we turned off

The waterways were a bit busy on the way to the Biesbosch Nature Reserve (one of the largest national parks of the Netherlands and one

We departed Wemeldinge about mid day and had a leisurely cruise to Tholen (established in the 13th century as a tollbooth on the Eendracht (a

Day 1 – Into the Netherlands Setting off from our winter mooring at Bruges (capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in

Sunday evening we readied the boat to set off, filled up with water and we were off again Monday morning but not before having managed

After a few days in Ghent with Lucy (at the end of which she presented me with an early birthday present from all children of

    Now on the last stretch towards Leuven, we found that the locks are a bit of an odd shape with a double recess, which

We set off from Turnhout after a night of heavy thunderstorms and the weather now turning cooler but with some strong winds.  Quite a few