Barge trip 2, Upper Thames leg

 Tuesday 27/08/24

The beautiful Astoria, a floating recording studio, bought by David Gilmour 
of Pink Floyd, some of their later albums were recorded here.

Here is the second set of clips capturing some of the scenes from the first and second days on the Thames.  You get to see a small sample of the incredible variety of craft on the waterways, boats, house-boats, motor-boats and even a canoe (we saw many more of these on the way).

Some of the craft border between bizarre and eccentric.

There is also a clip of the barge exiting one of the Thames locks, operated by a lock-keeper and much bigger than the locks on the canal, it was a soft introduction to locking.

The final clip depicts us passing through the Henley Bridge.  Nathan makes it look easy, I can confirm, having steered the barge, it is almost impossible to go in a straight line so getting it through such narrow spaces, fighting the current and wind is no easy feat.

We even managed a quick stop alongside Hendrina to pick up some supplies.

Henley is quite a special place for us as our travels started in a campsite in Henley after we moved out of our house and into Bokkie to start our travels.  We've re-visited it quite a few times but this was the first time we were on the water - very special.