We just left for our summer vacation to the Baltic Sea. The first week we can take it easy without the girls. That gives me time to look back on the past two months. For several reasons a special period that I would like to remember and therefore written in this blog.
Of course special because of the corona circumstances, where the loosening of the rules brings beautiful things that we probably experience more intensely and consciously because of the corona situation. But also because a lot is happening in our lives, so it is not a boring period at all. Toine and I still work entirely from home and especially I like that very much. The working weeks fly by and the weekends are filled with life on the boat and nice moments with friends.
Highlights of the past period:
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Marinthe starts as a waitress at Sailors Inn on June 2nd and feels immediately at home. She works about 5 days a week and sleeps/lives on the boat in between. Usually alone during the week and in the weekend with us. Partly because of this we are more often on the boat with three times until Sunday late evening having dinner at Sailors Inn while Marinthe is working. Soon she gets a lot of responsibilities like 'luik lopen' with lots of compliments. She has regularly drinks with the group after work and comes 'home' in the early hours. She uses my car and therefore it is no burden for us. Now the last week working while we are already gone she sleeps in the camper of Iris. Without corona time this job would not have been possible.
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A weekend with the Calanche and the NoDoubt at anchor in the Hals with bbq from the Cobb. That weekend the girls are at home, Marinthe has a graduation party with a small group in our house. Eline has a small party in Tilburg With friends after having been in Maastricht for a week for the first time after the lock down. Luckily this all goes well without a mess in our house. Good for the girls that this is possible again.
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Joe Jr feels like an extra crewman. I'm sure we're going to have a lot of fun with it, also in the winter when we live on the boat. Good to have a real hot oven.
This weekend would also be CAS 2020 and this year it was a Concert at Home (at the Boat) with beautiful performances by Kensington and Bløf.
We make arrangements with Visser Watersport for the measurement of the new mattresses for the beds after the renovation. We also order new curtains that will give the boat a more modern look. This week we work two days on the boat with a virtual drink of her work for Mira.
In between all the activities we also take care of the decoration of the room of Marinthe in Maastricht. On the 4th of July we get the key, on the 8th of July Eline, Marinthe and I paint the walls in the room and on Tuesday evening the 14th of July we move all her stuff. Luckily Thorold helps (it is two stairs up). This way she will be able to start the intro week of university on Aug 17, when we might still be in Sweden.
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The last weekend before our summer vacation we visit the Calanche in Zierikzee. Also for Claude's birthday. Again a nice evening with Eline, Thomas and Sjoerd.
Yesterday at 4 pm we said goodbye to the girls and left for the Baltic Sea. Eline is going to give sailing lessons for a week at Aqua Vitesse and Marinthe works at Sailors Inn. On the 28th of July they come together with the train to Warnemünde in northern Germany where we plan to be.
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