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We arrive at our final destination on the Thames at Chertsey. We spend a little time reflecting on the past year and why we do love boats? Going back in a retrospective makes us feel very emotional and proud of our achievements. When we look at our first ...

#finalleg #cruisingisover We have our final cruise on our barge taking us from Maidenhead in Berkshire down river to Chertsey in Surrey.  We have some wet weather on route and hold up for a few days in our home town of Windsor.  One last bridge quite to...

We are starting our way downstream the Thames. From Sonning through the locks and the stunning views of the river. We are really enjoying our last few weeks on the boat before leaving her for the winter in Chertsey. We will make a pause for a few days in ...

We travel back from Wallingford to Reading taking in the stunning Oxfordshire countryside. On our way we had the pleasure, maybe not...of meeting a madman on the River. He starts off hitting and scratching our boat and then tell us to basically F%21?*off, ...

We finally reach Wallingford and decide that it is the end of the road for us. We were planning on going all the way to Oxford but time and tide waits for no man. It has been a beautiful way upstream the river but we would like to go a bit down from Wind...

#thameswater #thameslocks #lockmaster This week we travel from Mapledurham to Goring.  This is a great stretch of the Thames and we were not disappointed with the small town when we arrived. Really beautiful with just a few shops and a bakery. We always l...

This week we continue our journey upstream the River Thames. Absolutely beautiful scenery bend after bend. The properties on the side of the river are just stunning, enough for us to dream a little bit. Who doesn't dream with the Euromillions? We answer s...

This week we carry on our journey up stream from Marlow . We pass through the best scenery the Thames has offered up so far. This is really beautiful, we can see now why it is so popular to cruise the Thames. We come across a couple of broken locks and hav...

This week we continue our journey from Windsor to Cookam and Marlow. With all the issues we had before now we are cruising the Thames smoothly without any problems. We show you all the process going through the locks on the river Thames. A very enjoyable j...

Some problems come up and we are out of the water again we have loads of jobs to do to get our boat running again. We fit new seacocks as the water line is a bit lower than we have expected. Better be safe than sorry! We refit the prop shaft and discove...

#kitesurf #kitesurfing #howtokitesurf #welovekitesurf We manage to get another Kitesurfing lesson just before we leave Alvor. After a little recap we get on and try to get up again. After numerous attempts we get going for a few meters, a good progress but...

#learntoKite #kitesurfer #kitesurfparadise #kiteworld During our time in Portugal we have been learning to Kite-surf. The weather is not really helping us, after all it is January. But we managed to do 3 lessons and we are nearly flying. I have to say it i...