We got off a little earlier this morning as we had relatively far to go. Interestingly, as we were going through the first very low bridge out of Utrecht, the bridge operator looked to confirm that we'd paid for our night's stay. His computer said we hadn't as the automatic machine wouldn't accept my cards - what's new!!!! We did pay the men at the lock though, so they let us out. Onwards through many many bridges, then into the lock that would take us to the mamoth and very busy Rijnkanal (sp?) which runs from the Rhine to Amsterdam and is no place for us. How we rolled and slopped and flopped, though that wasn't till after a wee delay in the lock into the canal as the door behind us didn't want to close. Fortunately the lock out of the big canal (look both ways before you cross the street boys and girls) worked perfectly. By then Chuck was lying unhappily under our feet in the cockpit well, where he can't slide off.
We're now in a little town, Montfoort. Two gigantic churches, the Dutch were pretty religious in the past it seems, two icecream places, my kind of town, and Chuck kind of misbehaving, just not paying attention to directions. Now. He's stone cold deaf, but we're getting used to that, all of us, but he just didn't care today, going where he wanted. A little more leash time was the result of that.
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