My first kayaking river trip today was rather immense - it was meant to be a chilled out paddle down the Thames in Oxford but the weather had other ideas! We had downpours of monsoon proportions, wind, sunshine, lightning; you name it!
However, aside from the crazy weather it was an amazing experience - the Thames follows a beautiful, meandering path through Oxford, under quaint little bridges, passed the university buildings and along tiny little canal paths behind houses and pubs. It was truly breathtaking in parts.
We stopped in a park for a picnic lunch (it was sunny at the time fortunately) and also managed to moor the boats at a local pub for a quick visit. I'm not sure what the trendy locals thought when a bedraggled, exhausted bunch of kayakers descended on their local watering hole!
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