So we continued along the canal south of Amsterdam with Susie and John as extra crew members.
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| Listening to the cricket |
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| That's how close the canal is to Schiphol airport! |
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| Susie hasn't forgotten how to steer |
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| Greenhouses for ever |
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| Vain attempt to sail! |
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| Lunch |
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| Amazing bridge |
A night on a large lake - less interesting than we had hoped - and then a visit to Gouda where we moored with our mast among the trees alongside the canal. It is an extremely historic city with a beautiful Radhuis and other treasured historic buildings but less cheese than you would expect!
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| Gouda Radhuis |
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| Lego version in the toy shop! |
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| Just in case you thought there wasn't anything cheesy about Gouda - these men are weighing cheeses |
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| John and Chris interacting with street art! |
Locking out into salt water we went along to join the River Maas near Rotterdam. We punched the tide up towards Dordrecht to arrive just in time for the two-hourly opening of the huge railway bridge.
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| Great way to cool off in the heat! |
Dordrecht is a city that has truly combined old and new. We berthed in the old harbour - on a river, not a canal for a change - beside a cute Dutch bridge, with lovely old merchants' houses all around. The city felt vibrant with lots of locals out and about enjoying a music festival - as we explored we found a number of stages with performers - we were glad they were civilised enough to finish at 10.30!
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| This statue had obviously been involved in the festival! |
The following day was more cycling -
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| Making friends with a pig at the City Farm |
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| Hooray - some thriving bees |
Early the next morning we took Susie and John to the station - we were back to the two of us for a couple of days.
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