Our friends duly arrived dead on time having managed all the connections from Schipol with aplomb. The next day dawned grey, windy and cold but the wind was from the South and we were going due North so we decided to put our nose out into the Ijsselmeer, see what it was like and decide whether it would be Medemblik on the West side or Stavoren on the East where we really wanted to go in order to get into Friesland and specifically Sneekermeer. We always try to give our friends albeit a small but varied cameo of Holland and so we were aiming for some town moorings and some island moorings. So we went for it….and 2 hours later, after a rather bumpy and surfing crossing we entered into the peace of the inland canal
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