Quite nostalgic today walking along the Thames and then over the bridge into
Wallingford. Cloudy again but no mist and quite chilly till the afternoon, when the sun came out. We remembered the stifling heat last year and were grateful! Suddenly we are seeing trees and shrubs in blossom - lilac, laburnum, horse chestnut, magnolias and wisteria and the sweet scents of early summer. Also stinking ranks of cow parsley! The cuckoo was in full voice and so were the geese.
The grasses in flower are particularly lovely and I'm so glad I don't suffer from hay fever.
We were conscious of the mainline to London disturbing the peace most of the day. But passing under a fine brick railway bridge crossing the Thames I remembered how I was fascinated by the many different bridges we came upon last year.
Quite surprised that a hotel like the George where we are staying doesn't offer afternoon tea, nor is there a tea shop in town. So we ended up at Costa and I pretended I'd earned a big slice of carrot cake!
Tomorrow we start the great challenge of the Chilterns, in snow and hail if the forecast is to be believed.
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