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BIG RIVERS TO OURSELVES

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June 19th 2014
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 ( ... read more

Europe » Netherlands » Gelderland » Apeldoorn » Hoenderloo

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The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized natio... ... read more