I was excited to do the walk today as I knew it was going to be a beauty - and I was right! Back through good old Clapham Junction trying not to get bowled over by people running down the corridors to get their train. I arrived into Kew Bridge station and proceeded to walk back over Kew Bridge to where I left off on Saturday.
Being a week day the trail was much quieter than it was last weekend but there were still quite a few people out.
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| How could you NOT like walking along this trail? |
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| This was looking back - the river has always been on my right - the sun was in my eyes so opted for this view |
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| Syon House across the river.... |
Syon House has some interesting history- Lady Jane Grey stayed here while plotting to overthrow Queen Mary I and Pocahontas was loaned this house as she found London rather dirty. I hope to visit here before I leave as the plan is to do one of my walking club's walks in Richmond area before I leave... but then I have plans to do lots of things!
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| Former Tudor boathouse that is now a tea room |
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| Isleworth - cute town. I need to walk on that side of the river! Thames path is both sides but my book covers the south! |
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| Love this signage |
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| Lovely Richmond - stopped to have a coffee and use the loo at a pub - ended up dumping the coffee in the river! Ugh! |
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| Some more of lovely Richmond |
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| The path was fabulous! |
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| Marble House |
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| Kingston bridge |
All too soon I was in Kingston...okay that sounded pretty. The truth was I was damn glad to see Kingston as I had walked over 7 miles which is the longest I've walked since I hurt my back last summer. Plus I had not had as much as I should have eaten for breakfast. We won't talk about the meat pie and veg etc that I demolished in about five minutes when I got to Kingston. And the reason there aren't as much pictures is blogger is being a big pain...sorry about that. I tried and ended up with them all over the place or huge. Definitely an upgrade to Wordpress when I get back home and have finished talking about my adventures on this trip. And an upgrade to a small traveling laptop as well!
My next attempt at the Thames path will be in late April when I am back from Turkey and Europe....and it involves Hampton Court! Yes I will be walking right by it - and being as I haven't been there in a while it means a visit of course! Hope you'll come along!
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