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2 days before "Fryslan"
... time the environment will be even better to calm down, we are meeting in Paulie's home town: Leeuwarden!
Looking forward to see my friends and see what "Fryslan" is like! It's just 6,5 hours on the train but I'm sure it's worth it. I'm telling myself I will be reading all the way there and thus, catch up on all the reading I haven't been doing in the last few months!
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Pieterburen-Winsum
... ingang. De gastheer kwam op de fiets, nadat ik hem gebeld had, en vertrok weer nadat hij me over alles had geïnformeerd. Lekker rustig aan gedaan de rest van de middag/avond. Natuurlijk uitgebreid gebadderd, met een biertje van het huis erbij. Daarna een rondje door het dorp gelopen. Het is een leuk oud dorpje, dat eigenlijk uit twee delen bestaat: Obergum en Winsum, gescheiden door het Winsumerdiep, beide op een eigen wierde (=terp). Lekker makkelijk gegeten, patat in de lokale ...
Back where it all began
... but also to think about my next steps in life. There's a lot of directions (literally) I can go and in a few weeks I'll know what I'll do next. What, where and when? Not sure yet, but I've had a lot of positive reactions on my blogging activities and intend to keep writing in future....
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Spring Tide goes to sea again!
9th August 2012
Before bed last night we did a bit of passage planning but had conflicting information. We knew when high water at Harlingen was, but did not have any tidal stream atlas for this area to know which way the tide was flowing before and after high water. Our tidal atlas just did not go up as far as where we are, but the nearest part showed low water at the time we knew high water was! We then looked up another tidal atlas but ...
Engine electrics!
... our dish racks in that area but for it to be turned 90° is still a mystery. The engineer did not even charge us for his call out from Leeuwarden. That would not happen in UK. We had a plumber who lived round the corner who wanted his call out charge!
Once everyone was back on board, we had a lovely lunch. Kasper and Anne (both serving in the Dutch Navy) liked Spring Tide even though a little smaller than they are used to.
After they ...