Karen’s Travel Blog

Journeys on water and land

sailing

  • 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

  • Sail Amsterdam 2025

    What would you describe as a highlight of your life? Did you go to Woodstock or a Queen concert, visit Antartica, were caught in the tragic aftermath of a terrorist attack, or were witness to an Olympic milestone. Well this year Peter and I visited the 10th edition of Sail Amsterdam aboard our Joie de 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