Well, here we are, our Stately Home amongst some of the most awesome dwellings in the land. Like our friend, Helen, we prefer our watery version. A fraction of the cleaning and maintenance - and we can move our home whenever we like. The pic shows our over the river neighbours.
Yesterday, Elizabeth took the train from Goring to a meeting in Cambridge and Pete did a little desk work. In the evening we went to the Swan at Streatley, just over the other side of the river and lock, to have our coffee and a wee dram. Elizabeth used to take new Au Pairs there when they arrived each September, to have tea on the terrace and to show them a little quintessential England. It was so much fun to be there by our own boat!
Today's lovely journey took us from South Oxfordshire through Berkshire. We moored in
Reading, far prettier from the water than by car or train, and did a little shopping. Had to tie to trees rather than rings, but it worked! The pic is the view up to the trees from inside Bella. As we travelled on, Elizabeth did a work call, we missed an island or two, then moored up in leafy Henley.