Scheveningen and Den Haag

By ydalir.nu

Two calm days in the harbour of Scheveningen was exactly what we needed and we took the chance to see Den Haag and went to “Escher in het Paleis”, a beautiful museum with the graphic artist M.C. Escher, who is famous for his impossible constructions and transformation prints. An extraordinary work of art. Early Monday…

Dutch heroes of the North Sea

By ydalir.nu

We were enjoying a comfortable close reach out of the Elbe, passing Brunsbüttel, Cuxhaven and all the East Frisian Islands but in the night we got the wind right in the nose and started to motoring. At 3AM in the darkest hour, there were suddenly strange sounds from the transmission and we had to shut…