Month: September 2017

Write the word ‘HAZARD’ on the floor and I can and probably will fall over it! This is one of the reasons we don’t have any pets on board our 8 metre wooden sailing boat, Lady Christina. To be fair, our…

Once upon a time, narrowboats plied the UK waterways, carrying freight. If you see a narrowboat nowadays, it’s more likely to carry holiday-makers than gravel , coal or grain. Instead of a large cargo space and a cramped living space…

Rather than a ‘straight through’ tour, we’re going round in circles. Not necessarily a bad thing. We more or less started this voyage in Leeuwarden in April, when it was VERY COLD. It was impossible to be out and about…

We left Fryslan for a 6 week tour of the northern and less well-known bits, partly to avoid the crowds and also to see more of this amazing place. We’ve found that places which are only mentioned in the guide…