September 13 - 18: A short 50m walk along the canal each morning to breakfast, on the…

…houseboat of our generous hosts/cousins Nico and Sandra.

There are canals, creeks, bridges and dykes everywhere. This dyke has a path with a constant stream of pedestrians, bikes, e-bikes, electric motorbikes, and some petrol powered (which seem so antiquated, noisy and smelly when they go by).

Breakfast is usually home baked bread, cheese, thin sliced cold meats, various “cultural” sugar toppings for bread.

Nico built the houseboat on to of a rectangle U shaped concrete shell. It floats just from the water displacement (Archimedes principle), not foam.

They have two electric cars: A Jaguar i-Pace, and a Fiat 500 (pictured). They charge from the outlet next to their houseboat, right on the canal.