canoo-ing
July 14th, 2007
or however you spell it…
Canooing is fun! Especially when people boat around you making waves that get you all wet. Nonetheless, it’s quite nice to see Leiden from a different perspective and transpire while you’re at it. The weather didn’t seem to allow it during the day, but it got better and the wind subsided a lot so the water was pretty calm and perfect for hiring a canoo and exploring Leiden 
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I went around the Witte Singel and paddled back through the Oude rijn, which took me about 75 minutes. I didn’t want to pass the Nieuwe Rijn as it was probably full of people, and I didn’t want to go through the smaller canals as a previous experience with swans has led me to avoid these locations as much as possible. What you don’t want to do is try to pass a male and female swan with chicks in a narrow canal in a canoo. I mean, that’s just asking to be savaged by a bird and get a good dose of nightmare-quality fear of birds in general.
What I did do was take pictures of the Plantsoen and various other locations on my route. Check them out!
My pictures are here
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.
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