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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: July 2008
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. Skutsje Sailing - Langweer. Skutsje Sailing on Langweer. Yachting is very popular in Holland and there are many yacht charter companies close to all lakes. The lakes here come in all sizes, Tjeukemeer is about 5k by 8k with two islands. The lakes have very rough water in windy conditions as they are not very deep and when the weather is fine they are very tranquil. And others large ...
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: May 2009
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. France - May 2009 another Adventure Perth to France. We only had to drive 3 k and were soon there and settled in bed ready for a good nights sleep before we started our 2009 Adventure. It is a good time to leave from home as we left and arrived in one day, went to sleep and woke up ready for the next morning. Driving around France in a Twingo. We stayed overnight in a small town and...
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: April 2009
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. Time at home and now it's ready for adventure again. It is time to get ready to go back to our boat. We have had a wonderful time home with the children and grandchildren and friends but are looking forward to our life on the canals again. The beach was great. The coastal scenery at this time of the year is fantastic. A view of the grass trees, Xanthorrhea priessi. We had holidays o...
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: September 2008
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. What a great time we had in Holland. Roll on 2009. We left Courlis at the Eiber’s Nest Marina for the winter. We spent a week working on the boat in the shed and were able to rent the lovely apartment and spent the evenings recuperating in comfort. Hans and Gitty Moses have a great marina with fantastic facilities. Courlis is now on hardstand until we arrive back next April. There w...
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: March 2011
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. Have you ever wondered if you could travel Australia’s Outback? Our Daughter Lisa and granddaughter Ashleigh say- YES YOU CAN! This photo shows her trip and how big Australia is. Their trip took 10 weeks and Lisa drove 14000 kilometres. 10 year old Ashleigh did school work which was emailed back to Perth and wrote a diary of her trip. LISA AND ASHLEIGH (and Elwood who stayed home).
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: July 2011
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. WE NOW HAVE TWO BLOGS. Now after 7 years travelling in Courlis we have decided to change our mode of transport and buy a motorhome. If you would like to follow us on our new adventures in our Motorhome please go to ykgilbertmotorhome.blogspot.com. OUR LAST TRIP IN COURLIS FOLLOWS THIS ENTRY. Courlis’ Trip Back to St Jean De Losne - 1225 kilometes and 256 locks. To sell Courlis, we d...
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: May 2010
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. GELDERLAND - MAY 2010. We have travelled the lakes between the coast line of the old Zuider Zee and the new polder of Flevoland before so this time we were just making a stop in Harderwijk to pick up Diana and Arthur who came by train from Rotterdam to spend a few days with us. We caught up with Bob and Lois for coffee in the square. We had a great BBQ in the restaurant. We stayed i...
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: June 2009
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. Germany 3 - The Lakes area - Schwerinersee to Muritzsee. There are many hire boat companies on the lakes. This picture came from a Locoboat Hire pamphlet. Schwerinersee (27 square Kilometres). We crossed the bottom of the lake for about 6 k and stayed in Schwerin for a few days. The yacht club we stayed in is only 500m from the city and castle. We went back to the restaurant after c...
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: July 2010
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. In Gorinchem we visited the chandlery as we needed an extension for our ladder which needed a few more rungs in the water. We also bought a bracket for the lifebuoy ring so we could fit it permanently on the back of the boat as down the south of Holland we are travelling on more large rivers than we have in the past along with a lot of very big barges. Walking around town we spied t...
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany: July 2009
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Adventures on the Canals of France ,Netherlands and Germany. Each year we travel the rivers and canals in our boat Courlis. Germany 9 - Bremen to Helgoland in the North Sea. We stayed at the Bremen Motorboot Club right in town. It has good facilities and only about 500 metres from the old town. The river is tidal here and the pontoons float up and down with the tides. This is near low tide. At high tide the top of the boat is just under the yellow stripe. While in Bremen we caught the train to Cuxhaven o...
