We left Oostende, Belgium at 1PM and made our way to Breskens, Netherlands. We had hoped to make it to Vlissingen (Flushing to us English speakers), but we saw that we would need to go through a lock and bridge and understood that the last opening was at 7:30PM. It appeared as if it would be tight to make it across to Vlissingen so reverted to our plan B and headed to Breskens instead. Others had told us it had a good sized marina there. Janice’s motto for this trip is “better safe than sorry” so the decision was made. We found out later that the information about the last bridge opening in Vlissingen was not true, but it didn’t matter – we made it to the Netherlands during the 2013 sailing season! It has been
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