Time for a celebration? Sorry, no time!
Waiting at a lift bridge.
The canal from Veurne to Diksmuide is narrow and shallow, which slows us down. The lift bridge operators are brilliant and manually lift the bridges and then race to the next one.
Our first sloping wall lock in Belgium
But it is all so easy with jetty's to tie to.
I love this design - friends can come stay and have their own house - you can meet in the middle!
Near Diksmuide
Our Women on Barges (FB group) flag is furled as it has some wind damage! We are about to arrive into Diksmuide and end this part of the voyage.
Horaaay!
We temporarily tied up at the visitors' dock, right next to our buddies Carole and Barrie on Silk Purse.
On the way in we saw Iron Lady. Alison and Roger gave us a very warm welcome (Alison is a WOB too - Women on Barges - and other boats too!)
Settled into our winter mooring. Here's our view on port (there's a boat tied next to us now - which is empty 90% of the time)
Our view aft
View on Starboard
Our view forward! Pretty nice eh? I think we'll like it here.
While this journey ends another begins.
First we had to dash to the UK and we couldn't explore Belgium for three weeks!
We are making up for that now and just love it here. Belgians are the friendliest people we've met so far.
So, what's the next journey? Well, there are plenty of projects occurring on board. Noel is fitting a fireplace and I am busy writing. My next manuscript is almost ready for the editor. That book is about our adventure flying to America (from Australia) to buy a sailboat and sail it back to Aussie via Easter Island and Pitcairn. You can see we don't sit still very long - for our other adventures, take a look here.
As for this blog, it's going to be pretty boring to show you what we do during winter (work!) however, I've an idea. In the last few days I've posted some pictures of our journey around The Great Loop in America. I will post some photos and stories of that trip - it was a few years ago, but one of the most wonderful experiences of my life.
It's been a pleasure to have you on board....... here's a quick taster of that loop trip...
First we had to dash to the UK and we couldn't explore Belgium for three weeks!
We are making up for that now and just love it here. Belgians are the friendliest people we've met so far.
So, what's the next journey? Well, there are plenty of projects occurring on board. Noel is fitting a fireplace and I am busy writing. My next manuscript is almost ready for the editor. That book is about our adventure flying to America (from Australia) to buy a sailboat and sail it back to Aussie via Easter Island and Pitcairn. You can see we don't sit still very long - for our other adventures, take a look here.
As for this blog, it's going to be pretty boring to show you what we do during winter (work!) however, I've an idea. In the last few days I've posted some pictures of our journey around The Great Loop in America. I will post some photos and stories of that trip - it was a few years ago, but one of the most wonderful experiences of my life.
It's been a pleasure to have you on board....... here's a quick taster of that loop trip...
Puttering through the middle of Chicago!
There'll be events in Belgium to write about - so stick around, I'll do my best to bring Belgium to your laptop! :-)
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