Year: 2019

Back to Zaandam ready for Amy and Sam who were joining us for a week – Zaandam seemed like a good starting point for them,

Reluctantly we left Alkmaar …. we needed to be near Amsterdam for Amy’s visit but decided we had enough time to go to Den Helder

Leaving Amsterdam we planned to travel up the river Zaan to the north of Holland. At the start of the river is the town of

We left Lisse for Amsterdam (the Netherlands’ capital, known for its artistic heritage, elaborate canal system and narrow houses with gabled facades) to be there

(Alphen aan den Rijn is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, between Leiden and Utrecht, situated on

Spent a lovely couple of days in Lisse (a town south west of Amsterdam, known for the Keukenhof gardens, which has millions of spring-flowering bulbs

Leaving Dordrecht, we eased our way into the very busy waterway towards Rotterdam with a massive amount of activity around us until we turned off

The waterways were a bit busy on the way to the Biesbosch Nature Reserve (one of the largest national parks of the Netherlands and one

We departed Wemeldinge about mid day and had a leisurely cruise to Tholen (established in the 13th century as a tollbooth on the Eendracht (a