Although I’d planned this cruise to Portugal for months beforehand, I still had little idea what to expect upriver. There was almost nothing I was able to find out about it so I had no idea how easy or difficult it would be to find overnight berths or even anchorages, nor whether we would be able to get ashore. But the biggest obstacle, of course, were the locks – five of them – all of which had to be booked for a specific opening at least 24 hours in advance.
And one Englishman we met, who kept his boat locally, told us that when he’d missed his booking time, he’d had to wait another 24 hours before he could make a second reservation. Clearly, you had to get it right. That in itself presented major problems because I didn’t know how long we should allow for each stretch of the river.
صدى البلد: القومى للطفولة يكشف الحالة النفسية لـ طفل المرور: مدلل ويستغل وظيفة والده
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صدى البلد: تحقيقات طفل المرور المتهم: متعلم السواقة وسني 11 سنة وأبويا عارف إني باخد العربية
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