We didn't have a very good night sleep last night due to some pillock in a rubber dinghy with an outboard engine play silly buggers by our mooring at 01.30 am, hope they get a puncture and sink.
Anyway we got up to a cloudy cold morning and set off on today's journey, the Thames is flanked on one side by a forest of trees, with grey smart chalets at the waters edge.
We pass lots of little villages dotted by and around the Thames, one of these being Cliveden where the rousing piece of music Rule Britannia was first preformed at its theatre.
We then pass the busy and attractive Maidenhead with its expensive waterfront houses, under the M4 motorway and then just below Bray lock is " Monkey Island " not nothing to do with the hero Guybrush Threepwood computer game saga, but home to a fine hotel. Next we pass Windsor race course and then we are at tonight's mooring at Windsor, and near Eton with its historical college.
We tie up and take a walk into the town and castle which is the largest inhabited castle in the world, as we approach the castle we notice a crowd gathering, and the Welsh guards marching up the street and into the castle. Today the Queen and most of her family is at the castle for the ceremony Order of the Garter ,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter
As we aren't allowed in to the castle because of this ceremony, no ticket and not dressed rightly ;(, so we have a look around the town, with lots of shopping , pubs and cafes again if you haven't been here then its a well worth a visit.
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