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The Canal Houseboat
Travel & Outdoors · EN · 2 parts · Ongoing · updated 2026-11-07
A booking mix-up puts two strangers on the same Amsterdam houseboat for a week. A cosy two-part travel romance of bicycles, rain on the canal and sharing a very small kitchen.
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“The Canal Houseboat” is a Travel & Outdoors story for adults, told in 2 parts and about 3 minutes of reading in total. Every character is 18 or older and every encounter is consensual. Start with Part 1 and use the Next part button at the end of each part, or pick a part from the list below.
- Part 1: Double Booked. Tessa books a houseboat in Amsterdam and finds Bram already inside, unpacking. The app has double-booked it. Neither has anywhere else to go this week.
- Part 2: Last Night on the Water. On the last night of the week, the rain stops and the canal fills with lights. On the deck of the houseboat, Tessa and Bram stop pretending it was only a mix-up.
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