by Jules | Jul 25, 2016 | Thames Trail 2016 |
Reflections on my walk .. three months later Walking backwards? The day before I set off on the Thames Trail, I wondered if it had been such a smart decision to walk it backwards. After all, I hadn’t come across a single other person who had walked upstream...
by Jules | May 25, 2016 | Thames Trail 2016 |
To give you some idea of how much water we were prepared to encounter on this last day, take a look at the map .. did you groan as much as my sister when she first saw it? Take a closer look .. Given how much rain had fallen in the previous 48 hours, we knew there was...
by Jules | May 23, 2016 | Thames Trail 2016 |
During the night it poured and poured with rain. It didn’t bother to pause as dawn broke. The day had clearly arrived for my sister to join me .. it always pours when we walk together, usually forcing us to take tea or resort to retail therapy. It did last year...
by Jules | May 21, 2016 | Thames Trail 2016 |
OMG! The skies are grey and there is rain forecast .. I don’t remember ordering a wet day, especially for 17 miles by myself! Ah well, the night has been comfortable at The Rose Revived and I feel suitably refreshed and ready to forge on ahead. At breakfast I...
by Jules | May 17, 2016 | Thames Trail 2016 |
My rest day in Oxford on Sunday was delicious. There was breakfast with Patrick, Nick and Joanna in the sunny courtyard at Old Bank Hotel, followed by a saunter around the Covered Market, a long nap .. and then a light but exquisite dinner with Anne,...
by Jules | May 17, 2016 | Thames Trail 2016 |
The day started with delicious porridge, courtesy of the Flanagans. Great to see them, especially with the added bonus of catching up with Anne and the gorgeous Teddy. After juggling cars we arrived back at the Barley Mow in Clifton Hampden, where we’d had...
