Back up and running

Hello from Dorney, close to Eton. 100 miles done, with a new phone but the same old end of day aches and pains.

We thought today was going to be an easier day - more fool us. We packed our smelly belongings and left Wargrave.

The Thames has been both a pleasant surprise and a hard task mistress. The surprise has been the number of deserted and lovely stretches. The task has been coping with what we now refer to as 'sticky water'. An example - we passed through Henley, paddling the measured and marked course. However it seems they replace the water with treacle. Some streches of water take so much extra effort to pass it seems like we are paddling through treacle. Neil is going to put his considerable engineering talents to work at solving this puzzle when we get home.

thanks to Nicky for bringing dinner (and a phone) tonight as we are in self catering. There's lots more to say but it will have to wait until we get home as it's late.

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