A few years ago we walked The Thames Path, from the Barrier in London to Lechlade in Gloucestershire. There are some photos here: wolffsys.co.uk/albums/thamesPath. We didn’t go further upstream, to the official source of the river, because we’d been told it was rather boring. We were young and naive then, though, and believed anything. Recently, we have been following the course of a disused canal, The Stroudwater, which connects Saul Junction, on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal, to the River Thames. Today we made the final east-west link from Cricklade, in Wiltshire, to Lechlade, in Gloucestershire. 

We drove the camper to Lechlade, rode our bikes to Cricklade, then walked the ten or eleven miles back to Lechlade. Nice day, good weather. Slightly sore bottom.

Field of oilseed.

River Thames NE of Cricklade.

Sitting by the Thames at The Red Lion, Castle Eaton.

Relaxing dog at cottage near confluence of rivers Thames and Coln (and end of Stroudwater canal).