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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Back (Home?) again

We are back aboard Armida and it feels good now we have got to sleeping and waking up again at the right time. While we were gone Armida got a new look:
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We now have a new bright blue bimini for the back deck to protect us from the hot sun.  It also means we can take down the white canopy in the warm weather and motor along “al fresco”.  It is on rails so it can slide forward to cover the steering position.  Along with the new small outdoor sofa we bought, the back deck now feels like an outdoor room.  It is especially good for our new crewmembers:
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Rosie and Noodle are not yet sure what this boating life is all about and still give us that “are we going home yet” look but they are getting fed and walked so they will get used to it all pretty quick.2010-08 020
The Dreissens, who own the boatyard and marina where we have been staying very generously took us out to dinner to the best meal we have had in Holland, at a local Italian restaurant (Il Forno) with no menu!  You tell them how many courses you want, what you like and don't like and they do the rest – wonderful.  The owner came and sat with us afterwards and gave me the coolest bottle of wine ever.  The company was great too – a wonderful evening.
We are enjoying getting the boat reorganized and are not in a hurry to leave Roermond.  This is partly because the weather has been grey and raining and also because one of the big locks on the Maas/Meuse River in Belgium is closed until the 24th so we couldn’t get through any faster.  So we will probably leave in a couple of days and stop in Maastricht (again) and then on to Liege in Belgium.

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