We only realise later that evening that we actually had 2 more of those gigantic sluis’s to do – they are actually 260m not 100m as reported earlier – but the next day dawned beautiful and we set off to an empty river. The only monsters we saw were more like pussy cats and we had a lovely journey on a wide and meandering river in the sunshine virtually to ourselves, doing a constant 7.5kts ( a lot for Isabela) until we reached Arnhem where we moored up in the only, surprisingly small, haven. Even sitting doing not a lot seems tiring on the boat so we wandered in to town for an Indonesian meal – Holland having a long history with Indonesia. We had told the HM that we planned to stay 2 nights at
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