SNAIL’S PACE by Gabrielle Lorenz
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Few of us will be able to live on a historic vessel a hundred and thirty years old. If we did so, fewer still would be prepared to take it and our families across the North Sea or be able to improvise engine repairs mid-passage from "surplus" pieces of furniture. The story is of pioneering spirits, much in the vein of the Victorian writers of cruises on the continent. But it is different from these and from most modern day cruising stories in that it both identifies everyday life in the places visited and also does so both from the perspective of adults and the perspective of then very young children. In that respect, the combination is unlike anything else I have ever read about waterways. I now invite you, in your mind's eye, to take a journey by boat not just across England, but the North Sea, Netherlands, Belgium and France, all at "Snail's Pace". John C. Fletcher |
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