Category: Shensi travels

With the ice on the water almost gone and temperatures increasing at a rate of knots I feel under pressure to clean the outside. Hopefully

Our first winter in the lovely town of Harderwijk, a little gem we discovered on our journeying around Netherlands (and recommended to us by Gaelle

Nicki and I had made our plans to travel back on 30th December to our much-loved barge before the end of 2020 so that we

Despite the many and various restrictions imposed on travel due to the Coronavirus, we managed to travel to at least 49 locations in Belgium and

6th October – On arrival I walked over to the harbour masters office to check in (we had been thinking that we’d only stay in

4th October – Departing Spakenburg at 9.30am we were on our way further along the Ijsselmeer to spend a night in Zeewolde – a huge

Weesp is one of our favourite places in the Netherlands, and we were especially pleased this time to be able to moor right in the

Leaving the island of De Schelp, with Bob doing most of the steering, Jane joining in briefly, Andy took over for the final approach into

28th September – Casper had been unwell whilst in Maarssen, but fortunately he seemed to be improving this morning and he was much more perky,

26th September – Leaving Leerdam in colder weather, we headed back along the Linge (a canalised river) onto the Merwedekanaal, arriving in Meerkerk a little