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Rolling Bridge
This is the Heatherwick Studio’s Rolling Bridge in Paddington basin. It was commissioned in 2004 and needed to be a footbridge that would allow a crossing for local workers and residents but crucially...
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Cleopatra’s Needle
With are time in London coming to an end we jumped on the bus from Paddington and headed down towards the Embankment on The River Thames. It’s the first time we have ever been here so it was all new...
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A cunning plan (not)
You may remember that a couple of weeks ago we contacted Canal and River Trust regarding a mooring at Rembrandt Gardens in London. There are only two bookable moorings (but room for three boats) and...
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Leaving London
We pulled pins untied from the bollards at 08.00 at Paddington basin with friends Rich and Sharon on Nb Oakapple and headed to Little Venice to fill with water and deposit waste. The taps are some of...
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Brentford
We pulled pins from our mooring at the bottom of the Hanwell flight of locks at 09.00 and started our short cruise into Brentford. There was only 2 locks and 2 miles to cover and Carolyn and Sharon...
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River Thames
The day had come for us to drop down from The Grand Union Canal at Brentford and onto The tidal Thames. We had to book our passage with the Lock keeper at Thames lock in Brentford 24 hours before...
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Award winning boat
Always Sometimes after every cruise we might indulge in a glass of wine or five with our travelling companions and friends Sharon and Rich. Just imagine what a surprise it was to find out that...
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A wey we go
This is the first Kingfisher we have seen on The River Wey as we have a sit still and chill out day after yesterdays marathon 12 hour cruise . We have a lovely mooring under the trees and with cloud...
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The End
We pulled pins at 08.00 from our mooring and just managed to catch a picture of this chap before he flew off. Passing through Guidford and we saw this fine looking boatman practicing his rope skills....
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Leaving Godalming
We pulled pins from Godalming at 07.40 and reversed back to the winding hole in very windy conditions. Rich followed us and the trick was to use the flow of the river to turn the boats.On our way up...
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Back on The Thames
We pulled pins at 08.00 and made good time down The river Wey . Going with the flow and being able to fully open the paddles when dropping down locks certainly speeded things up.With some of the lock...
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Hampton court palace
At Hampton Court Palace it must be the busiest moorings we have ever stopped at with literally hundreds of boats a day passing us. The speed limit is 8 kph or 5 mph ,but a lot of boats totally ignore...
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Astoria
We left our moorings at Hampton Court Palace at 08.10 and were soon up the first lock of the day which was on self service. Luckily Carolyn and Sharon soon worked how to operate the controls. We then...
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Tow path work out
With a day of not cruising Carolyn and Sharon arranged to meet up early in the morning and have a towpath workout. They spent a god hour doing a bit of Tai bo. I just love it when these Chinooks fly...
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Slug and Lettuce
We pulled pins at 08.20 and soon came upon this house boat. We have never seen so many different types of boats as we have seen on the Thames.Also we have never seen so many bizarre things in the...
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Windsor
After leaving Staines it was up to Romney lock. With a rise of 6 feet and seven inches it takes a good throw to get our ropes over the bollards. Due to the great flow when the lock is filling we have...
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Windsor day 2
It’s 09.00 and we are on our way into the town of Windsor. Just below the castle and just what we have found !It’s a Wetherspoons.. Well it would have been rude not to have popped in for a...
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Weird and wonderful craft on the Thames
How about this !!! Not for me , but £120 an hour buys you this floating hot-tub.. . Or what about a tour on a 26 seat Amphibious Vehicle, which is a purpose built Vehicle manufactured in 2010. I...
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Odd Animals
We pulled pins from our Windsor mooring at 09.00 and headed upstream and under Windsor railway bridge.It is a wrought iron 'bow and string bridge designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It carries the...
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Queenie
We pulled pins from our mooring at Cookham and headed towards Marlow. At Marlow lock we entered and were told by the lock Keeper to switch off our engines. It’s strange how some Lockies tell you to...
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