A number of people have asked us how we came to be boating on the canals and rivers of Europe. In we visited Amsterdam.
In , acquaintances told us about their recent second honeymoon aboard a rented canal boat in southern France , and gave us a couple of brochures. That was so much fun, we rented again in , this time for a week in northern France, near Sarrebourg.
Then we did it again in in central France, south of Auxerre. Each year we enjoyed it more and the third time was the charm, as they say: we decided to buy our own boat and spend a lot more time boating.
Three weeks experience and we were off to buy a boat. In the Fall of , we spent two weeks looking at boats in Holland and France, aided by the internet listings by dealers. We came home and spent the winter reading about boats and boat-buying, and thinking about what we had seen.
Then, in the spring of we rented a small vacation house on a lake in Holland off-season it was very reasonable and a car and started our search again.
