Still at Cookham

Tuesday 9^th July

We are still at Cookham!!  We have had a lovely time here, we needed to stay over the weekend as we knew it was going to be a hectic on the river as the weather forecast was so good.  We saw lots of boats trying to moor here at Cookham but no room at the Inn.  We have had a busy few days reading books, walking to shops, hair done at Marlow, caught train from Bourne End to Marlow, Chinese first night in Cookham, rest of the time we’ve had some lovely BBQ’s, great butchers in Bourne End and Cookham.  They give free sausage samples on Saturday mornings so great for a free breakfast !!

We got a mention read out on the Simon Mayo show on Radio 2 show on Friday 5^th July at about 6.45pm, you can listen to it on play again.  Kev sent a request by text, we’d given up but just at the end of the show they read it out…..we did a little dance on the back deck….we had had a few glasses of wine by then!

Simon Appleyard was moored further down the river and popped along side for a quick chat
He moored alongside on Josephine the next morning and stopped for a chat and cup of coffee

Our pilot Stefan called us on Sunday to let us know he now can’t take us across the channel on 12^th, (he had warned us he might not be able to do it for us) but we now have a another highly recommend pilot called Mark who is going to take us across after 15th.  He has more time so we will probably take 2/3 days to get to France rather than the 20 hours Stefan was going to do.  Means it should be more fun, also as we are going a week later the trip through London because of the tide will be early morning but in daylight.  The wind and weather dictates when we can go so all is very flexible.  We have also heard that some locks south of Paris are due to be closed end of August for at least a month so we may not go via Paris to Auxerre this year.  We can always do Paris next year, again all very flexible, this is what our boating life is going to be like. 

You might see lots of photos of me with a glass of wine in my hand!
Note the very large sirloin steaks behind me waiting to be BBQ'd, they were delicious.

A truly beautiful spot, amazing weather 

Our view out of our Galley window

We promise the next up-date we will be moored somewhere else!