Eynsham

We set off just before nine o'clock, planning to arrive at Swinford Bridge for the night's mooring - we stayed here on the way up. This would allow us to go to Eynsham parish church for their morning worship tomorrow.

The first part of the day's cruise was, as expected, very bendy and with rather more traffic today (weekend!) it needed a careful lookout. We also had to share most of the locks with other boats. When some of them are non-ferrous (let the reader understand!) it can be a bit tense to make sure that we do not bump into them - steel ones: that's a different matter!

Rushy Lock has a topiary frog!

It was quite windy for most of the time which added to the navigational task, especially when blowing from the side to be moored against.

There was little to report different from the upstream journey - we did manage to take a photo of an intriguing pollarded tree, looking rather like some modern sculpture.

We had planned to stop for lunch but, as luck would have it, the lunch-time stretch was sans mooring spots so we just kept going, taking turns at eating!

We arrived at our planned destination in good time - mooring was not easy with a strong wind again. After tea and a reading session we opted to walk into Eynsham - a pretty village with several interesting looking shops - better than Lechlade, perhaps. The bridge is a toll bridge although the fee for a car is only 5p! From the middle of the bridge there is a good view of the lock.