We have been living on the boat for 9 weeks now and we like it very much. It feels very natural, like it has been a long time since we lived in a house ☺️. The weeks in Dordrecht fly by. With working at home, occasionally some friends for dinner, the girls regularly visiting in the weekends and often walking through the beautiful city. We even use the Kamado Joe about three times already.
The two of us on the boat fits perfectly. Even with both working at home that goes very well. With the girls in the weekend is also very good. We have been used to that for years 😃. It gets tighter when there is a boyfriend, the weather is less good and we are not sailing. In situations like that, we'll probably rent a cottage in a nice place more often in the future. Like a midweek in the Veluwe in February and a weekend in Cadier en Keer in March, just around the corner from the girls' home.

During the Easter weekend we are moving from Dordrecht to Bruinisse. At least, that is the plan. But we encountered some obstacles on the way which made it take longer. It is already challenging to get out of the harbour of Dordrecht on Good Friday. First, the harbour master, who only came after a phone call to open the first bridge. Then we went through the emergency bridge, where the barrier fell on a Post NL van and the bridge keeper did not open the bridge fully because of the consternation. We just managed to get through with only a few centimetres of space between the spreaders and the bridge on the port side and the boat and the shore on the starboard side 😧. The railway bridge then opens just in time; we've made it, on to Willemstad with a nice bit of sailing on the Hollands Diep. The next day we take it easy and sail to the Volkerak locks in the beginning of the afternoon ... unfortunately, the bridge is closed for the entire weekend (we could have known that if we had read the messages correctly😢). What now? Via the Haringvliet to Vlissingen is a bit far ... then to Numansdorp and next week to Bruinisse. Then we can go with the We have to pick up the cars in Dordrecht on our bicycles. Besides, we have never been to Numansdorp.

We stay here for 4 nights. On Easter Sunday the weather is still beautiful and after a delicious Easter brunch we go for a long walk in the dunes of Oostvoornse. From Easter Monday onwards it is bad weather for three days with strong winds, hail and wet snow. Oh well, we have our house with us so it doesn't matter where we are. 

On Wednesday evening we sailed on to Bruinisse. The Volkerak lock opens immediately, at the Krammer we have to wait 45 minutes and at the Grevelingensluis 1.5 hours (because of maintenance it is only open during block hours and we can't get through until 23.00). In the meantime we could pick up Toine's car in Numansdorp. At 23.45 we are back in our own box in Bruinisse with both cars in the parking lot. The move has succeeded 😃.
The next few weeks we are going to experience living on the boat in Bruinisse. I'm sure it will be fun, with a different dynamic than in Dordrecht. It's the variety that makes living on a boat so attractive 😊.