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Through Europe at Four Knots: A Tale of Boating Mayhem and Family Adventure

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Sweet little travel adventure tale. Les Horn navigates Europe's inland waterways from England to Greece on a 24-foot sailboat. He manages to show us this family farce (his wife and 2 preteen kids come along for the ride) at the same time he shares his vivid observations of central and Eastern Europe's varied landscape, history, and people.
Good armchair traveler material.

An avid armchair traveller, I am always on the lookout for books of travel adventure. This book was a delightful addition to my library. The book chronicles the Horn families' voyage by boat from the North Sea through the canals of Europe to the Black Sea and the Agean.

The author is adept at chronicalling the interesting details and amusing incidents that allow the reader to feel if s/he is along for the voyage. Rather than just writing a travelogue, Horn records the trials and tribulations of daily family life in a small boat, their tears and their triumphs. Their adventures are sometimes amusing, sometimes hair-raising, but always interesting. This is a book that I will read again.

An avid armchair traveller, I am always on the lookout for books of travel adventure. This book was a delightful addition to my library. The book chronicles the Horn families' voyage by boat from the North Sea through the canals of Europe to the Black Sea and the Agean.

The author is adept at chronicalling the interesting details and amusing incidents that allow the reader to feel if s/he is along for the voyage. Rather than just writing a travelogue, Horn records the trials and tribulations of daily family life in a small boat, their tears and their triumphs. Their adventures are sometimes amusing, sometimes hair-raising, but always interesting. This is a book that I will read again.

Not a book may guide you. You can not have any reliable information and idea for such a trip.

Having recently been bitten by the sailing bug, I looked forward to reading this novel as I thought it would offer insights into how to travel self-contained and afloat, but I was sorely disappointed. All this book did was convince me that the author was a selfish man who dragged his wife and children through eastern Europe, complaining about the treatment he received from his host countries the whole time. The cheeky manner in which it is written is like a very bad attempt at British humor (which is usually very funny when it is spot-on). I only read it to the end to see if his wife would end up divorcing him. She did not. There, I spoiled it for you. You have no need to read it now.