Even fleet of motor cruises, we are something of an oddity. Our Joyeux is awkwardly different with a number of redeeming features, none of them aesthetically pleasing. She is just not the way people build boats, unless those people live on the Norfolk Broads in which case she’s exactly how people build boats.
Our “always-on-the-cusp-of-coming-back-into-fashion” swimming pool blue cabin tops never seem to compliment any background, yet more and more it is attracting compliments for its retro 80’s chic, by those confirming their doubtful expertise in fashion,
To be fair, fashion is said to run in forty year cycles so we are right at the top of the cycle for reasons that seem completely inexplicable.
Quite near the absolute limit of our attention spans when we arrived yesterday, and unaware that there were three separate harbours in town under one management, we logically chose the wrong one, the one principally for sailing yachts, and quickly found what we thought was our allocated berth, to be occupied.
We squeezed into a handy spot temporarily, which might have been three sizes too small, and after a very friendly chat with the harbour master, to our great relief were given permission to remain where we’d settled.
Fortunately for the adoring public, this put us on full view of anyone promenading between the public carpark and the old town. Willemstad is a beautiful village with a rich history and fortifications to underline that, and of course a windmill which seems to be trying to peek over the hedge, calling us into town whenever it thinks we are looking too relaxed, which seems to have been most of the day.
It did not take a very long time at all to explore the perimeter of the town and all it contains this morning. Of course we were being careful not to be drawn into too many museums and places of historic interest for fear of overtaxing ourselves, so it’s been a perfect place to spend a completely free day,
We’ll probably go back for a walk in the evening, even if only because that gives us an excuse to go back onto the walkway and view our little boat standing like a rose among thorns, and it will make the windmill happy.
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... I did not know that there was a Willemstad in Zeeland.Thought for a moment you'd crossed the ocean! 😁
Ah, I'm glad you've discovered Willemstad's charms. Because my younger daughter lives quite close by, we go there quite often and walk around the fortifications. The café in the old town harbour is a very nice place to finish a longish walk.
By the way, did you happen to see a barge called Wanderlust there? It belongs to a lovely American couple, David Oare and Becky Grey. She is a WOB member and he writes great travel posts on FB. We met Becky the year before last in Brugge.
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