By the time we left Marlow the place was almost deserted! Why are we always the last???
Past Bourne End and The Bounty – maybe we will go in there on the way
back as we won’t be in a hurry. Cookham
Meadows was almost empty – I’m not sure where everyone is as the river is very
quiet for July. Cookham Lock and
Boulters Lock. Back in the day we (a
work trip) used to go on Riverboat Shuffles from Windsor to Boulters Lock where
we would all devour fish and chips then dance all the way back to Windsor. They were fun – ah those were the days!!
When we last came through Taplow in April 2017 Berkeley Homes were just
starting to build a new, upmarket, riverside estate. I took this photo of the first phase.
I was so amazed at how lovely it looks today that I forgot to take a
photo, but I have “borrowed” one off the net.
We had hoped to moor at the moorings above Boveney Lock but that was
full and all the wild moorings there were taken up with looked like continuous
moorers. So, it was down through the
lock and there was a nice space on Bath Island which we grabbed!
To set the scene for the next bit!
I have three family trees that I work on from time to time. My paternal and maternal sides and Richard’s
maternal side. During the day I had a
text message from an Arthur Lewis asking if the name Lewis appeared in my
family tree. My maternal
great-grandmother was a Margaret Lewis.
He mentioned a date but when I looked at my Margaret the dates didn’t
match. However, Arthur came back and
said that Margaret was the daughter of his great-grandfather! Which, by my calculations makes us second
cousins once removed! Strangely though
it turned out that Arthur and his wife, Ann, live in Taplow and we had gone
through Taplow in the morning! Arthur
asked if he could come to Windsor and see us, which they did and it was very
pleasant sitting out on the bank, drinking tea with a distant cousin! I will try and do a bit more work on the
trees now.
During the evening we saw a smallish motorboat towing two men in the
water. As they drew level with us the
two men decided it was time to get back on the boat. The first NAKED man got on quite easily but
the second struggled and struggled and in the end they really had to manhandle
him into the boat – I bet he will sore in the morning!
13.87 miles
5 locks
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