Dutch Limericks 🇳🇱

We motor sailed fast through the night

On calm seas along German Bight

To Terschelling we headed

Took turns to be bedded

Pink dawn was a wonderful sight!

When riding your bike through the sand

There’s something you should understand

When starting to fall

Don’t mind at all

It’s bound to be soft when you land

We cycled along in Terschelling

And rode by the sea which was smelling

Pushed e-bikes by hand

Through acres of sand

There was cursing but no one was yelling

In Harlingen we’re packed in quite tight

So many boats make a wonderful sight

We’re two in of four

To get onto the shore

Reversing out should be alright!

Out of Waddensee into IJsselmeer

The locks and bridges were nothing to fear

The sailing was fast

Many boats to storm past

Enkhuizen had just two bridges to clear!

Storming along from sunny Enkhuizen

Any other boats? We just whizzed round ‘em!

Through bridges and locks

Too easy! Then docked

In Amsterdam which is simply astoundin’!

Into Amsterdam to look at the view

Into Old Church, Rembrandt House too

To crew said goodbye

And we let out a sigh

We used to be four but now we are two!

Sailing La Bamba to Scheveningen

To a lovelier spot we couldn’t bring her

It’s really quite grand

With acres of sand

Such a shame that we couldn’t linger

We avoided the big ships off Rotterdam

As it’s windy we side-tracked to Stellendam

A faulty bow thruster

Had Dave in a fluster

Tomorrow we’re back on our Belgian plan!