It was getting dark and the visibility was closing down as the earlier haze turned to a thick mist. We were approaching the rocky shoreline east of the Lizard and we had to make a decision. If we got it…
Category: Cruising Log
Stormbound in Brittany
I haven’t written anything in this blog for a couple of years, but right now we find ourselves stuck in the lovely small town of Lezardrieux on the north Brittany coast. Not so awful, but we’ve been here two days…
Cheese, Books and Bulb Fields
From Rotterdam we are travelling north through the inland canals towards Amsterdam. The trip to Gouda is quite short – after passing through a couple of locks and bridges we tie up in the yacht club marina by lunchtime and…
Towns and Cities
After the peace and quiet of the Grevlingenmeer, we headed north, through the busier waterways of the Rhine and Maas (or Meuse) delta. First there were some major dams and bridges to get through – including the scary ones where…
Meer-ly in Zeeland
For the last week we have been pottering around in the glorious inland waterways of the southern Netherlands. These enclosed waterways were created by the huge Delta Project, established after the terrible floods of 1953, which hit Holland as badly…
Netherlands Cruise 2022
We’ve left the country! For the first time since 2019 we are cruising abroad, and we’re now in the Dutch inland waterways. There were several challenges getting here – in particular navigating all the windfarms that seem to spring up…
Amsterdam and Beyond
I obviously wasn’t in the mood this year for expansive blogging on our holiday, so this is a brief (ish) summary of our trip to North Holland. Having failed to persuade anyone to come with us Elizabeth and I set…
Going In Seine
Over the last few days we’ve visited Fecamp, Le Havre and Honfleur in the mouth of the Seine, and we are now in Eastbourne having crossed the channel from Fecamp.
Bouncy Night in Dieppe
The Channel ferry ports are a strange mixture of cultures, pockets of period architecture in between largely brutalist post war reconstruction, run down in places, thriving in others. Dieppe was all of these plus an old fashioned seaside resort, but…
Bonjour Boulogne-sur-Mer
Perfect sailing conditions this afternoon, reaching across the Channel in 10-12 knots of north-easterly breeze, making 7+knots through the water and a handy 2 knot tide also pushing us in the right direction.