Karen’s Travel Blog

Journeys on water and land

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  • Cruising season 2026

    What do they say about timing flying when you are having fun? It seems as though our 6 months sojourn in Melbourne had only begun and we were planning our return trip to our Joie de Vivre in Europe. Our 2026 cruising season started when we hosted the DBA flag day get together on the… Read more

  • It has been quite a few weeks since I wrote my last blog. Today I’m catching up, sitting in our sunroom in our house in Melbourne, watching the trees bend over at extraordinary angles as they weather a strong wind storm. After a few days in Delft, which was where I left my last entry… Read more

  • After picking up Jo in Harlingen, we were going to stop again Leeuwarden, but Peter decided he couldn’t face all those bridges again so we continued onto the small village of Wergea.. Now Wergea, and I’m sure nobody has heard of it, because I hadn’t, is a typical Dutch village. A canal wanders through the… Read more