We passed through Marlow which looked very attractive from the river and saw 'The Compleat Angler' a hotel and restaurant with lovely views of the suspension bridge, it is named after Izaak Walton's book which was published in 1653.
There were 6 locks to work through on today's cruise and for most of those we were in the company of a couple of holiday cruisers - nice,chatty folk - one of the couples had an 18 year old Yorkie on board - still in excellent health! A couple of times en route Baz opened up the throttle which is one of the nice things about river cruising - of course you have to watch that you don't break the speed limit, the environment agency are running a 'speed awareness' campaign at the moment and carrying out spot checks using a speed gun! Oh imagine the shame if Micky Jay got a speeding fine (or perhaps Baz would be secretly pleased.......)
Bridge at Henley-on-Thames
Council Building in the centre of Henley
Hundreds of tents seen just outside Henley - looked like a big event was being set up
Baz knows how much I love ice cream, but time didn't allow us to 'stop me and buy one'!
We were nearly, but not quite, fooled by this ol' fella taking his ease by the river
Have lost track of the bridges we've past under lately! This one is just behind us on our mooring in Maidenhead and is quite a noisy railway bridge
View forward of the mooring
Quite a step down to the boat - or up,depending how you look at it (note the new bike under it's cover!)
As I mentioned before because we are trying to cover reasonable distances each day at the moment we are doing a whistle stop tour of this part of the Thames. We had just come through Cookham lock when we entered a lovely stretch of Beech woods which surround Cliveden house, built in 1851 by Charles Barry for the Duke of Sutherland. It used to be the home of Lady Nancy Astor and is now owned by the National Trust - if we travel this way again which we hope we will - it would make a peaceful stopping off place.
Bye for now
Ali and Baz
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