{"id":5872,"date":"2009-08-24T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2009-08-24T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T13:35:30","slug":"messing-around-in-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2009\/08\/24\/messing-around-in-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"messing around in boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dabsolutely nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhalf so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In or out of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the charm of it.”<\/p>\n

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“Whether you get away, or whether you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t;”<\/p>\n

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“whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always busy, and you never do anything in particular;”<\/p>\n

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“and when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done it there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d much better not.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d —The Wind in the Willows<\/em>, Kenneth Grahame.<\/p>\n

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Oh, Ratty really did know what he was talking about. On a warm, summer weekend this beautiful city truly comes alive, and Amsterdammers take to the water in almost anything that floats.<\/p>\n

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To join a group of friends, both old and new, in an elegant, spotless bateau “painted blue outside, and white within”; to share in Prosecco, and tiny tomatoes, mozzarella and basil, and crisp, cheesy Italian pizza; to meander along the canals and river, the strains of Billy Holiday drifting across the water: to do all these things amongst the glints and gleams and gurgles of the water, is to spend a day cut straight from the pages of that wonderful childhood story.<\/p>\n

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And then, to escape the narrow canals of the city and take to the broad sweep of the river, where the steep brick walls of the canal houses give way to fields, and cows, and larger, old-fashioned farm houses – yes, I quite understand Mole’s enchantment.<\/p>\n

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For this entrancing experience we\u00c2\u00a0 had Pia and French Boy’s friends to thank. They invited us all on their recently renovated beautiful ex-lifeboat for the day. We were, in all, a cosmopolitan lot – Romanian, Danish, French, Australian, and Indonesian – and by the end of a long, warm day full of fun and sunshine, I think we all agreed that there really was “absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”<\/p>\n

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all words and photographs by Zo\u00c3\u00ab Yule<\/SMALL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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