We set off early this morning, on what promised to be another hot day…

The trees provided some shade, and for once the locks were set in our favour. However they tend to be hard work this end of the river…

We stopped prior to New Haw lock to get some shopping, and then went thru the hardest lock on the river, New Haw, according to Hazel.

Then the only manned lock on the Wey, Thames Lock and onto the river itself. It didn’t take long to get a 2 week license, and join a convey of freshly released hire “Le Boats”. This was good as the next 3 locks were un manned, and as we were in the middle of the convey let them do all the button pushing. By now it was getting very warm, so we selected a leafy tree to moor under by the Magna Carta memorial. The water was too inviting….I’ve finally had a swim in the Thames…..! We are now watching numerous trip boats ply up and down the river, along with paddle boarders, cruisers and narrowboats. If this is a week day it must be bedlam at the weekend.