Life on the River Avon

It was a real pleasure cruising along the Avon. We had the river almost all to ourselves and most days only passed one or two boats heading the other way. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, boating at a maximum speed of little more than a good walking pace, is a wonderful way to slow down the pace of life, relax and get close to nature.


You've probably noticed me using the emergency life ring as a great vantage point for looking out on the river. There was plenty of room for all of us except Ungi, who was a bit big for the life ring. He used a deck chair instead (but he didn't put it on the roof!).

From my excellent observation post, I spotted lots of different birds we don't usually see, even though we live in the countryside. I saw a kingfisher, bullfinch and lesser spotted woodpecker. We also enjoyed watching lambs gambolling in the fields.

Most days when we were moored up, we had hungry swans and ducks come to visit.


I enjoyed feeding them very much, especially when I discovered they were happy to have the coriander tortilla wraps which were a bit of a bad buy and which no-one wanted, but we didn't want to throw away as we simply deplore wasting food.

We also got to stay overnight at some idyllic places. In our final picture for today, we're looking back at one of our overnight mooring places. If you can spot them, the green stick-like things were the mooring posts (they have to be tall to allow for flood conditions - more about that to come soon!)


Lots of love a very relaxed Eddie and crew of Muscovy xxx