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Summer 2008 Cruise to
the Netherlands
from Reading via London, Chatham, Ramsgate, Nieuwpoort and Vlissingen, to
Zeeland, South and North Holland, the IJsselmeer, Friesland,
Randmeeren, Utrecht, the Biesbosch,and back across the channel the
way we came; then on up the East Coast via Harwich and Lowestoft to the
Norfolk Broads |
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This is the diary of
Starry Night as she made her Summer 2008 cruise to the Netherlands. Diary
entries cover a week at a time according to what is going
on, together with a few
photographs.
Click on a date to
read the diary entry for that period. | | |
| index
to diary entries |
| 23 April to 29 April | | Reading to Limehouse
Basin (London) | | 
mains electricity,
rubbish, water & pump-out.
updated 19 Feb 2009
sluizen, Dutch style.
updated 9 March 2009
ABCs of Dutch
bridges.
updated 19 Feb 2009
Test your Dutch
Crazy signs and
posters
updated
29 June 2006
Dutch
Dictionary
useful words for
unravelling entries in the Wateralmanak Deel 2 and posted
signs
updated
4 August 2008 |
| 30 April to 6 May | | Limehouse
Basin (London) to Middelburg (Netherlands) via Chatham, Ramsgate,
Nieuwpoort (Belgium) | |
| 7 May
to 13 May | | Middelburg to Leiden
via Veere, Willemstad, Alphen a/d Rijn, Karger Plassen | |
| 14
May to 20 May | | Leiden
to Langedijk via Amstelveen, Zaanse Schans, Alkmaar | |
| 21
May to 27 May | | Medemblik to
Leeuwarden via Hindeloopen, Sneek | |
| 28
May to 3 June | | Leeuwarden to Urk via
Dokkum, Lauwersoog, Lauwersmeer, Sneekermeer, Sloten | |
| 4
June to 10 June | | Urk to Biesbosch via
Randmeren (Elburg, Spakenurg), Lounen, Utrecht, Gorinchem | |
| 11
June to 17 June | | Middelburg to
Lowestoft via Breskens, Nieuwpoort, Ramsgate, Harwich | |
| 18
June | | and so to Brundall | |
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Updated 19 February 2009
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