Sunday, 8 November 2015
Thames Path
Reading → Marlow
Distance: 18.55 miles
Ascent: 103 metres
Duration: 5 hours 48 minutes
Familiar but foreign
« Not walked | Not walked »
The landscape is getting more familiar. Running through towns and villages we've been to plenty of times before, this section of the river is distinctly recognisable though only the final two miles from Hurley to Marlow are well known to us.
The recent rain has made this a slippery, sticky and muddy walk today along the most exclusive length of the Thames that we've seen. George Clooney's new pad in Sonning, Paul Daniels' place in Wargrave and the rowing reaches of Henley all hint at the exclusive nature of this part of the valley. It may be undeniably beautiful, and certainly civil, but to us this could never feel like home no matter how familiar it is.