By Nick
I imagine it's getting a bit boring, me going on about how wonderful the weather has been, so I won't mention that we had another fabulous day of sunshine, though it did get a bit chilly in the middle of the day. Poor us.
Today, joining us from Shepperton Lock, we had the pleasure of the company of my niece Isabelle and her friends Ashley, a local, and David, an almost local. Most of the morning was spent chatting with them, which really helped the miles fly by.
Later, just as we got to Molesey Lock, we were met by another niece, Rachel and her son Sam, who has recently completed a sponsored 5K scoot - he's 2, by the way - and today he completed another 5K with us, which we all thought was quite impressive for a two-year-old. I was equally impressed by his scooter.
We had a lovely walk past Hampton Court, moored outside of which was the Queens rowbarge. She must have fancied an outing in it down from Windsor.
We were all pleased to reach Kingston Bridge where we had lunch at a nearby pub before our companions left us for their respective homes, leaving us to continue to Richmond and the end of day 8.
At nearly 17 miles, tomorrow's route between Richmond and The London Eye will be the longest section of the whole walk. We're going to take it a bit easy and have a couple of long breaks and hope our limbs will cope.
TTFN - N
I imagine it's getting a bit boring, me going on about how wonderful the weather has been, so I won't mention that we had another fabulous day of sunshine, though it did get a bit chilly in the middle of the day. Poor us.
Today, joining us from Shepperton Lock, we had the pleasure of the company of my niece Isabelle and her friends Ashley, a local, and David, an almost local. Most of the morning was spent chatting with them, which really helped the miles fly by.
Later, just as we got to Molesey Lock, we were met by another niece, Rachel and her son Sam, who has recently completed a sponsored 5K scoot - he's 2, by the way - and today he completed another 5K with us, which we all thought was quite impressive for a two-year-old. I was equally impressed by his scooter.
We had a lovely walk past Hampton Court, moored outside of which was the Queens rowbarge. She must have fancied an outing in it down from Windsor.
We were all pleased to reach Kingston Bridge where we had lunch at a nearby pub before our companions left us for their respective homes, leaving us to continue to Richmond and the end of day 8.
At nearly 17 miles, tomorrow's route between Richmond and The London Eye will be the longest section of the whole walk. We're going to take it a bit easy and have a couple of long breaks and hope our limbs will cope.
TTFN - N
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