It has been hot in The Netherlands, with almost no rain, and the water levels in our rivers have dropped, like here in the river IJssel near Deventer:
The commercial transport ships are having trouble navigating this, but some enterprising daredevil has tried to cheer them up:
It says: "Always keep smiling".
I'm not so sure that is good advice, but the lack of commercial shipping does give more room for playing about in the smaller boats:
On the now much wider banks some typical Dutch jetsam has surfaced again:
Is has rained a bit since I took these photos, but not nearly enough to get water levels back to where they should be. I call on the Germans upstream to fix this by draining all their lakes into the river Rhine.
That should do.