Schoonhoven

At around 10 this morning the heater mechanic 'phoned to say that he had repaired the heater and was on his way to us to put it back into the boat. Once that was done, and the repair tested and found to be successful, we quickly walked into Utrecht for a small shopping expedition. The we set of on the trip right through the city. You go under 16 arched bridges, which is quite pretty. Fortunately the sun had come out as well, and people were sitting on the terraces on the side of the canal.









We had carefully planned our departure time so that we hit the first low bridge, which had to open for us, immediately after the lunch break. Several bridges and two locks further found us on the river Lek. We have done a bit of 'river cruising', but this time we have planned to follow the Lek to Rotterdam and (much) later we'll tackle the Maas, a little bit of the Waal and the IJssel.
The Lek was not too busy today, we were passed by only two big tanker barges and saw about ten going the other way. After just under two hours we arrived in Schoonhoven, the 'silver jewellery' town. The weather changed just after we arrived, so we'll go into the town tomorrow, the forecast seems reasonable.

Some Lek-pictures: