Today is a sunny day and we leave our over night mooring again, it should of cost us £8.00 to stay the night but nobody came for the money, so loft we went. We pass with Windsor on our left and Eton on the right as we go under the bridge, Windsor http://www.windsor.gov.uk/ with its castle and town and Eton http://www.etoncollege.com/Home.aspx with its college which dates to 1441 where it was founded by Henry VI to provide education for 70 poor scholars, now 1280 boys attend here and costs for each pupil is over £30000.00 per year ,18 of our British Prime Minsters have been educated here.
As we carry on there are fine views over Windsor and its 4800 acres park, next we reach Old Windsor and its lock and then its not far before we decide to moor up at Runnymead, where the sealing of the Magna Carter in 1215 took place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
We took a lovely walk, firstly to the JFK memorial and then to the Magna Carter, this was through wheat fields and fields full of cows.
We then go back to the boat for lunch before we set off for a hike to see the R.A.F. Memorial which sits on top of Cooper hill with views back to Windsor and towards Heathrow, the warden told us that you can see seven counties from here.
The memorial itself is a beautiful peaceful place and a homage to 20000 lives that was loss in the Second World War that were never buried or found a resting place.
It's a beautiful day as we walk back through the forest and then back along the riverbank to our boat.
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