It’s also washing the boat so you can pack it up at the end of the week day, sort out what clothes are going to be left on the boat day and try to avoid getting heat stroke as the temperature once again hits the thirties and makes life just as challenging for those stuck indoors as those scrubbing the roof day.
Extraordinarily it’s exactly three weeks (but who’s counting?) since that fateful day in Dordrecht when our adventure took a turn for the ever so slightly beyond our control, the earth started spinning in reverse at twice it’s normal speed and we began living at half ours. I mention that t because I had a photograph with a “three” on it, and I’d simply run out of energy to take a more appropriate photo today.
The realisation that it’s only been three weeks and that we will be on our way home before the fourth is complete is just as difficult to compute as it is to come to terms with the scope of cleaning and packing to be done.
It’s not over, but we have a clear path to next Tuesday now, and we simply can’t express our appreciation for the assistance we’ve been given, and the kindness of those simply wishing us well. Extraordinary does not come close to describing what we have been experiencing.
Tonight, after sharing one last meal (until Sunday anyway) Dave and Ria returned to their boat. Shortly afterwards, Ria apparently, having discussed with a neighbour, our “plight”, although that word truly does much more drama on our current circumstances than they deserve, returned with yet another meal prepared by someone we had never met, to help us along on our fifteen kilometre solo leg to Bruges tomorrow!
When I was very young we had a long play record in our house, a recording of the music of Burl Ives. It’s funny how things from the past come flashing back in times like this, but slightly overwrought by being the recipient of this kindness, I must confess;-
A little bitty tear let me down.
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Oh how kind! But as I’ve said before, it says as much about you two as it does all those who’ve been so supportive. Please come back again! 🙏🏻
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