PART 2 GOING DUTCH
After a gentle meander from our home port of Jachthaven Stenhuis in Aalsmeer to Amsterdam, Weesp, and Woudrichem, we reached the lovely town of Heusden, where we spent four nights to complete our working week (Mon to Wed) on the boat. Work done, we set off again for Maastricht, the most southern city in the Netherlands.
A couple of hours along the Bergse Maas river we stopped at a pleasant marina in Kerkdriel. The lake there is a training ground for the local dive school and we watched the students clambering in and out of the water in their cumbersome SCUBA gear. The concept of diving in Holland is a little odd because most of the water is only about 2m deep and pretty murky at that but I guess you can only work with what you’ve got!
Leaving Kerkdriel behind, we made our way past ‘s-Hertogenbosch and onto the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal which would take
