Runnymead

Today's tasks were:

1 To get roughly half way to Teddington with a view to getting the early morning tide on Wednesday
2 To find water
3 To find bread, milk & some provisions

Halfway looked like Windsor again, which I was a bit unhappy with given our difficulties before.  However, we found ourselves making very good time with seemingly little traffic given that it was a bank holiday.  So we pressed on.  Using the trusty computer and the Gazeteer on Nick Atty's Canal Planner I scanned Maidenhead for useful supermarkets, but they all seemed away on the periphery.  Windsor turned up a Waitrose not far from the main drag, so we planned a stop there on the wall, just after the bridge (going downstream) for a quick getaway up the main street and back.   At Cookham Lock we discovered a water point and used it - a painfully short hose requiring the boat moored half off the layby.  Cookham also has a useful kiosk selling milk & bread (and icecream). We reached Windsor by 15:00 in spite of lock delays over the lunch hour and did the shopping in half an hour - then back on the water reaching Runnymead to find space available on our favourite night stop mooring.   Thames Lock has been booked for 8 am Wednesday.

Comments

[Mark]

Thank you for these great postings. It is good to follow your travels and read about all that you are doing. Have a safe trip on to the Thames.

Best wishes,

Mark