Is this the most pointless gate on the Thames Path?
I forgot to post this when I posted about the walk itself but I thought it was still worth showing.
Thames Path – Day Fifteen – Shillingford to Abingdon
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 …
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Thames Path – Day Fourteen – Cholsey to Shillingford
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 …
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Thames Path – Day Thirteen – Pangbourne to Cholsey
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 …
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Thames Path – Day Eleven –Henley-on-Thames to Reading
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 …
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Thames Path – Day Ten – Marlow to Henley-on-Thames
So, as promised, we were back on the Thames Path this morning for the Marlow to Henley-on-Thames (henceforth known as Henley) leg. However, it very nearly didn’t happen as when I checked my emails first thing I discovered that there was broken rail between Reading and London and this was causing cancellations and delays. We …
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Thames Path – Day Nine – Maidenhead to Marlow
It’s been a long time since we last did a leg of the Thames Path – nine months in fact. The reasons for this are many and varied but boil down to three things: a busy life, the weather and that we found the last leg boring which somewhat put us off. However, with the …
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Thames Path – Day Eight – Windsor to Maidenhead
For various reasons we’d delayed doing this next stage of the Thames Path but today we were good to go so it was a bit disappointing to wake to the news that the train we were due to get had been cancelled. No problem we thought, we’ll just get the next one. I checked and …
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Thames Path – Day Seven – Staines to Windsor
Today we were back on the Thames Path for the first time since last year. We had intended to do this stretch in December but cried off as we thought that it might have been wet underfoot. Having walked it today I now don’t think that would have been the case as the majority of …
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Thames Path – Day Six – Walton-on-Thames to Staines
A shorter walk today at only eight miles and with no train journey to get to the start we were able to step right out of the front door of our hotel onto the towpath having fortified ourselves with a full-cooked breakfast first! A Schoolboy Error To begin with, everything was fine. It was a …
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