Canoeing is always fun, specially in a country like Netherlands where you have abundant options: trails through lovely city canals or narrow weedy streams in the countryside, all so well connected. Canals packed with party boats and parks flodded with people sun bathing is the most common site on a fairly good summer day. Though I am not a good swimmer but this is one thing I love most, spending a day in a canoe. Canoeing in a calm not so deep water, one would wonder how adventurous could it be ? You are absolutely right until you have been through something that I had few weeks back. May be not dangerous or life threatening but not a thought that would pop up when you think of canoeing. It was a tour in the canals of Utrecht, a lovely big city near to Amsterdam. Utrecht doesn't attract as many tourists as Amsterdam does but it's an equally beautiful city with everything you can ask for. The centre is less crowded and unlike Amsterdam you can find canals less cramped with to