After our day of floating down the river, we walk all the way from Marlow to Eton in only 6 hours. We are becoming fitter, and faster!!
The rolling hills of Oxfordshire are dominating the landscape now. This morning we climbed our first proper hill and as a reward had a glorious view of river valley (and a little shortcut!). The sun shone into our faces and it was great to get a completely different perspective too. We met a couple of retired guys, who had worked on the river all their life. One used to be a lock keeper (at Boulter's Lock) and the other a boat maker. They were watching wildlife.
In Maidenhead Russell Brand and company wave to us from a boat going upriver. We presume they are going to cheer his mate David Walliams on, who is swimming the Thames for charity. Everyone we pass seems to talk about him. He started a little later than us, but we didn't know about this event till we were already on our journey and kept hearing about him. I can't believe he is stealing our glory!! ;)
In Maidenhead Russell Brand and company wave to us from a boat going upriver. We presume they are going to cheer his mate David Walliams on, who is swimming the Thames for charity. Everyone we pass seems to talk about him. He started a little later than us, but we didn't know about this event till we were already on our journey and kept hearing about him. I can't believe he is stealing our glory!! ;)
So we arrived in Eton in the early afternoon. And decided to call it it day. But finding a place stay during the week and especially this week wasn't easy. I nearly managed to persuade Reverend Swift to let us stay in his church hall, but then Mafe sorted the cosiest beds for the night, that we have had so far, for us. In the course of it we met Andres from Mexico and had a brilliant japanese (!) dinner with hot sake. Yum! Ready to walk on.
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| Resting Mafe |
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| Tree twister |
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| Castle Walk |
