Old Father Thames @ St John's Lock

The Trailblazer guide book which we’ve brought with us on our journey had set us up for today. It had told us today was going to be the most isolated and remote stretch of the journey. Yesterday we were advised to get whatever supplies we needed from a shop in Lechlade because the next nearest one was 2 days or 30 miles away in Oxford.

The book was right.

Today’s route was isolated and largely based around fields but even despite that the first couple of hours was still really good fun.

However, the reality was that despite the enormous number of photos taken, it was really all quite like that and by the time we got into the 6th hour of the day the joys of fields and countryside had pretty much gone past us.

In the meantime, though we did have a couple of nice places to visit and to rest. We saw the statue of Old Father Thames early in the day.Read more