After a very pleasant afternoon / evening in the shade of Guildford Meadows it’s time to head for the Thames, so downstream now….

Sadly the old Debenhams building is still vacant, it used to have a lovely café overlooking the river. Then onto our usual mooring spot before the bridge, just a short walk to the high street. You wouldn’t know your in a city centre, I resisted the siren call of watch and camera shops….

There used to be a lot of business traffic on the water, all gone now, only the converted warehouses show what used to be, and a statue to the old waterman on the town wharf.

It’s doesn’t take long before your back in the countryside, with stands of white cow parsley along the banks and baby ducklings everywhere.

The marsh marigolds are in flower as well, round globes of bright yellow, competing with stands of yellow Iris, often floating in giant rafts ready to foul your prop if you try to go thru them !

After 4 hours of cruising it was time for lunch, a cool drink in front of the New Inn at Send with some of our cheese and bickies….perfect.

We pushed onto “our” mooring at Walsham Gates for the obligatory ice cream…..I’m too lazy to go on ! Time to blog, the Thames can wait till tomorrow…..at least the breeze is keeping us cooler today.