March 2006
meeting up with blog friends
our lovely american blog friends Dan, Michele, Sophie and Susanna were in London so we were able to spend the day with them yesterday.
they were staying at an amazing residential complex in Vauxhall and had a great view from their balcony.
we went to Tate Britain where the girls did some crafting in the galleries
and they continued crafting in the cafe over lunch
we had a great time and the girls did too. it really is a pity we live so far apart
the thames path – part 1 The Source to Kemble
we’ve decided as a family to walk the thames path and yesterday we went in search of the source. The walk is 184 miles long and starts here:
we’re following the walk using this book, although there are other books too:
the girls sang a song at the start to mark the beginning of our trail
you’d expect there to be some water whizzing out of this spring at this time of year, but there was no sign of water here, or across the field where the thames sometimes flows
however, once we were over a main road we started to see the path the Thames sometimes takes
actual water started flowing in to the Thames from this ancient spring called Lyd Well. So here we see the watery start of the Thames
and then we were walking along an actual, wet, river Thames
and an attractive little stream it looked too
we planned to walk for 12 miles along the river, but we only managed a couple as it was too cold for little Kezia who was frozen like a lolly. so we went back to the car which we’d parked at Kemble station.
to be continued …