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“One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster” as the words of the song go. Well we had rather more than one night and it was indeed a very special experience.
At first, compared to Hong Kong, which after finding our feet had made us feel very at home, we found Bangkok rather alien […]
As with so much in life, giving up a pleasure is not as easy as we thought. Our decision to buy a boat and use it in lieu of foreign holidays came to an abrupt halt as we embarked on a 3 week tour of various destinations in the Far East. The first […]
Well, such was our determination to have our first weekend boating of 2008 that we ignored the growing evidence of appalling conditions heading in to take Silver Dream out over the Bank Holiday weekend.
Leaving late on Saturday evening due to Susan’s rota once again doing its best to ruin our time together, we arrived in […]
After the dreadful washout of the Spring Bank Holiday last year we’re hoping for more luck this year. Silver Dream, fresh from her recent round of maintenance and upgrades, should be making her first longer distance foray out onto the rivers for the Bank Holiday, albeit skirting around the edge of some rather messed […]