Well it seemed a long flight to the UK this year, but Qantas made things as comfortable as possible after a 3 hour delay. Sue from Kendall picked us up from Heathrow and dropped us off at Guildford where a hybrid Fiat 500 awaited us. Although it was 7.30 in the morning the temp was 23 and set to climb.

We did a quick shop on the way to Cartbridge Basin, then it was time to unpack. PT isn’t her usual pristine self this time. It looks like I have a lot of polishing, varnishing and general tidying up this year……After we had topped up the water it was 30 degrees inside, time to move to some shade. The upstream moorings at Send provided some temporary relief for lunch, but we had to move on as the sun came round and the boat interior peaked at 30 degrees !

This involved one lock, Triggs, where the jet lag and post viral conditions caught up. H almost fainted and I could barely climb out of the lock to give her a hand. Once thru and into twisty bits we found a nice shady spot to settle in. Having done so Sea Otter Wisper craised past with Brian and Jackie. It was good to catch up, they were instrumental in us moving to Cartbridge Basin.

Cheers SO owners

An early night……and an even earlier start, but that’s for later….