Above Eynsham Lock to Lechlade, River Thames
On Sunday morning we awoke to a grey dismal, blanket of dreary sky - not used to this at all! We continued on upstream to Newbridge and because there are so few boats about we were able to easily moor outside the pretty Rose Revived Inn. We trialed the beer in both the Rose Revived and across the bridge, in the Maybush, before lunch on board, followed by a heavy downpour. We spent a happy evening in the Rose Revived with the crew from Worthy Fox who arrived by car!
En route, we passed a caravan site, and noticed on the rear of a caravan the words in red "hate Clarkson" and in blue "love caravans"! Bet this won't feature on Top Gear.
We left Newbridge on Monday and continued upstream to Lechlade, the head of navigation. We must have passed at most, 6 moving boats and apart from each other only spoke to lock keepers on the way. This is a particularly pretty, very windy stretch we remembered from last year, but many colonies of last years swans, just hanging around.
Todays picture shows a mother duck with the remaining 6 of her original clutch of 17, following the lock keeper around as he carried out his duties.
(It is very surprising to see how many war time pill boxes there are remaining intact, dotted all the way up the Thames right up to Lechlade.)
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