Late August, we decided to treat ourselves to a short holiday to Crete. Just the two of us, just for a week. While enjoying the sun, the water and the mountains, we had no clue what would happen the year after. One night, we made ourselves a romantic pic-nic dinner on a high and dangerous cliff.

Once it became dark, we stayed a bit longer to watch the stars; quite quickly we start seeing falling start that were asking us to make a wish. I wished I had a boat so big I could live in it; Vic wished for somebody to clean that big living boat. In the darkness, we went back to the hotel and soon we returned back to our home in Belgium.

Our home was a rental home and only temporary. We were renting that big house for a year now, but we know we didn’t want to rent it forever; we had to go and find a house that we can own.

So we start looking for houses in the newspapers, on the streets, on the internet, hoping we would find what we want. Seems to be quite difficult: if you like a house, it costs too much; if it doesn’t cost too much, we don’t like it. One day, we should find what we were looking for…

Browsing through the internet through all the same houses we saw before; maybe my criteria were wrong and the house that we need is there after all. Look there is somebody who sells a houseboat in the canal of the city where we work already for more than 10 years. Imaging how it would be like to live in that! The pictures from the inside look very nice; seeing the boat from the outside looks terrible; price isn’t really within our budget neither; and who wants to live on a boat anyway.

We look further to the real houses, one day we should what we need. Curious what to find if I type ‘house-boat’. Seems there are many houseboats in the world. There are even a few nearby our work where we passed by for more than 10 years. Don’t want to start about buying and living on a boat, people will think I’m crazy.