Life's about experiences. These are mine.
After a comfortable nights stop at The Trout and a full English we were ready for another days walk – today only ten miles. Before leaving we spoke to one of the pub workers who lives on a boat at New Bridge, which we’d passed yesterday. He drives to work as it would take him …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Nineteen – Tadpole Bridge to Lechlade”
We’re on the home stretch of our Thames Path journey now with just four stages to go. We headed out today for a double header taking us even closer to our goal. The problem with two day walks As we are trying to do the whole length just using public transport we had to make …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Eighteen – Eynsham to Tadpole Bridge”
As the weather is taking a break from being in the 30s, we decided to get in another leg of the Thames Path. Because of our desire to only use public transport wherever possible, we chose to only go as far as Eynsham today. This is because to get home (and therefore back to the …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Seventeen – Oxford to Eynsham”
Another leg of the Thames Path checked off ✓. This time an 8.5 mile quiet and rural stretch bookended by Abingdon town and the city of Oxford. Here One Minute, Gone the Next For the first time since we started walking the path, we were joined by some friends on this stretch. They kindly offered …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Sixteen – Abingdon to Oxford”
I forgot to post this when I posted about the walk itself but I thought it was still worth showing.
It’s been a long time since we have done a leg of the Thames Path. Too long in fact. It was eight months ago that we did the last leg ending in Shillingford and made the bold statement that we would aim to be in Oxford by the end of the year. What happened? Life …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Fifteen – Shillingford to Abingdon”
We’ve not been able to do a leg of the path since late April. The reasons for this are twofold: firstly, it was very hot over the summer— too hot for us to want to walk; and secondly, I got plantar fasciitis in my right foot, making walking painful, so there has been quite a …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Fourteen – Cholsey to Shillingford”
Heading out for our fifth leg of the Thames Path this morning, neither Helen nor I were really feeling it, suffering from an unexplainable malaise. However, we pushed on and were really glad that we did. The weather was supposed to be sunny but feel like only four degrees due to a cold wind, but …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Thirteen – Pangbourne to Cholsey”
The beautiful weather has allowed us to complete, so far this year, 100% more legs of the path than last year. All that really highlights is just how few legs we did last year. I am glad that we are back in to the swing of it though and today’s was a really enjoyable section. …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Twelve – Reading to Pangbourne”
Having not done any legs of the path for over nine months, suddenly we have done three in the space of six weeks, and we have, finally, reached our home port! We headed out from Reading on what promised to be a beautiful day once again. This time we got the bus from town to …
Continue reading “Thames Path – Day Eleven – Henley-on-Thames to Reading”