Blogs from Sneek, Friesland, Netherlands, Europe

We were pushing on as it was the end of September and our original plans were to get to the marina in Lelystad, Netherlands in early October. Unfortunately Janice was having some medical problems which caused her problems with doing too much on the boat so we were taking it slower than normal. This gave us an excuse to make a few stops on the way. Our first stopping off place for an overnight was the village of Grou. We weren’t there long, but did take the time to walk around the town. It was pretty quiet when we were there so we had a relaxing evening in the marina. We did get a chance to meet cruisers from the Czech Republic – that was a first for us – hopefully we will catch up with ... read more

So back to Sneek to where Isabela will spend her real summer without us, a little tiny marina attached to a boat building company called Brandsma – they build Vlets like ours but unlike Smelne have been building all through the recession. We knew that a fellow sister ship who had lived at Brandsma for about 6 years so we thought it was a good place to find out about and Isabela was warmly received so we hope it will be good. Our friends arrived, this time by car which poses its own challenges – where to leave a car and the necessity of retuning to pick it up. Luckily Brandsma were very happy to oblige. We had concluded that further escape was necessary from the crowds around the Sneekermeer so we had planned a little ... read more