Mu sic
is
built over 100 years ago as a river boat. The old skipper transported
goods all over Europe. Later
on, the boat was rebuilt as a catering boat. The new owner, -a
passionate cook-, served food and drinks to skippers, while waiting
for the locks to open in the waters of Amsterdam.
Ifyou ever get the chance to visit a lock and watch skippers
shouting, -nervous that the boat will get damaged by an other skipper
who's wife doesn't know hot to handle the ropes properly either-, you
will instantly get the picture why the new owner stopped catering and
emigrated to... Australia!
After the Skipper and the Cook... a Filmer bought the boat. At first he
chopped wood every morning. This was his idea of a romantic way of
living.
But when the waters got frozen in
Amsterdam, he realized that central heating, was not such a bad idea
after all. He isolated the houseboat so well, that many Dutch
musicians came
here to (after) party and play their songs live.
The Filmer emigrated to his neighbournext door... in order to get some
proper sleep.
