With no new pics, here's one of a lock going into Amsterdam where you'll see a yacht is stuck sideways - not quite the thing, but easily done when the wind is blowing through the lock. Took them 10 minutes to sort that out.
Today was even more hoolie plus lashing rain. We did a serious session of passage planning, mapping a grid of weather forecasts against dates and locations and tides. This showed us that life has turned against us, in that the only window of winds that we consider safe in the next 5 days are 6 hours when the tide will be exactly against us around the Hook of Holland - so that's not practical. We need 24 hours to get across to the UK directly from here. So here we sit, possibly until next Thu.
It would be not unpleasant to be here, only a few miles from The Hague, if it wasn't for the thrice-damned Covid-19; as it is, we don't feel like going out to cafes, restaurants, museums etc. We may go for walks if the rain holds off, otherwise it's little jobs around the boat (there's always some) and a lot of reading & snoozing.
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