Just had to share this lovely picture of two out of the three 'boys' in my life taken from a reed covered unofficial mooring in north Holland near Groningen.

But the good news is that at last my book, A Cigar in Belgium about our first year in mainland Europe with Snail has been published and is available from bookshops, Amazon and best of all for my royalties, from the publisher at www.troubador.co.uk

An update on Snail in 2013. By the beginning of the summer she had reached Germany and by the end she was leaving again. This is us being escorted off the Elbe by the Wasserpolizei who had decided we were 5m too long for their waterways. We are still trying to find logic in their regulations.