Category: Countries

Back Towards Home Well, it was now time to start for home – which we did by going backwards. Our view of liquids on a barge during an unattended winter is: empty of water and full of fuel. We had been progressively depleting the former…

Plans Timing was looking OK, we needed to leave Veurne early on the 22nd to catch our plane late on the 23rd in Amsterdam – breaking the journey to have an overnight visit with some friends on the way. As it was now the 13th…

Bruges/Brugge? It’s so difficult to get the names right in Belgium. Most places have three names we have to consider: the Dutch/Flemish, the French/Wallonian and the English. So we have, variously, Ghent (En), Gent (Du) and Gand (Fr). Fortunately, the English and the French both…

Ghent to Bruges via Deinze The next major tourist destination was to be Bruges, only a short cruise by the direct route, but having some time to spare, we elected to detour on the way there. A pretty river cruise We had been told that there…