Hambleden to Soning (Yuri Geller's house) 8.5 miles, 3 locks, 3.5 hours

Set off nice and early again, but was very misty first thing, we were awoken early by a greedy duck eating the algae of the side of the boat beak on steel is a little on the noisy side!

We headed through Henley on Thames, what a place, talk about how the other half live, some amazing places and they were still clearing away from the Regatta, so we got to go past the finishing post!

As you can see as we headed into Henley the weather was still a bit grey but by the time we got to the end the sun had burnt through.

There are some amazing properties, maybe if we win the lottery!  Although I some how don't think we would quite fit in, as my brothers are fond of telling me you can take the girl out of the council house but you can't take the council house out of the girl!

We had planned to stop at a place called Soning and found a beautiful spot when we got here, £10 a night but worth it.  Only later did we discover that we were moored outside Yuri Gellers house and that was who we had paid our mooring fees to - he apparently gives the money to charity.

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Hope he didn't mind our gypsy washing on the back of the boat :-))

We were really surprised when he walked past this evening, wished us a good evening and admired the boat.

George obviously let meeting a celeb go to his head as very unusually for him he ventured into the Thames for a paddle when we took him for his evening walk.

 I must just share one last thing - Rodney being the good captain that he is got on his bike and cycled to Tesco in Reading, but as we have left all of the locks in the van he had to fold the bike up and put it in the shopping trolley!! Sorry I have no photos of this but you can use your imagination :-)