The idea of crossing the channel, going up the Rhine and down the Danube all the way to the Black Sea in a Mirror dinghy is so unlikely that the CA reviewer of Sandy Mackinnon's odyssey "The Unlikely Journey of Jack de Crow" clearly didn't believe it happened, and if it did, muttered dark words about shameless irresponsibility. I'm planning a trip by boat to the Black Sea so have been reading the available literature and dived into this book with an aim to learning whatever I could from his experience.
