Away and back to Abbington

 

It's  a bit of a dull start to the morning with grey skies, we are in Abbington an 18-C market town which grew around the Abbey which was founded in AD695, little remains of the original building except the Abbey gate. http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/

We wait for our Old friends from Cardiff to turn up which they do on their bikes as they cycled from the campsite at Clifton Hampden where they are staying in their motorhome for the weekend. We have a coffee and a chat before we turn the boat around and take the pair for a cruise back to their camper van.

We arrive at Clifton Hampden moor the boat and with Gareth and Val go to the campsite  and view their motorhome which is a very nice vehicle, Denise and I are both interested in motorhomes as our plan is to have one after we finish the waterways in our boat. So we have a spot of lunch  befor return to the boat and back to Abbington, where luckily we find a mooring spot, so we moor and then with our friends we go off to the pubs for a few shandies.

Abbington has 20 public houses and we sample  a few of them before deciding to have something to eat in a lovely Thai restraraunt, and must say the meal was really good and would reccommend it to everyone. http://www.zabbthai.com/

Anothe pint before Gareth and Val get a taxi back to there campsite and we walk back to the boat and to bed.

On Sunday morning we decide not to move and during the night we noticed flash light every now and then passing our windows and this morning we could see it racers going pass they are in an endurance race from Reading to Oxford 100 miles long and have be running all day and night but best of luck to them. http://www.centurionrunning.com/thames-path-100-2015/thames-path-100-2015/

On that note on Friday evening we could here people clapping by the side of the Thames and there were swimmers in it, some had wetsuits on but some were just wearing bathers and take it from me the water is bloody freezing.

So today Sunday, we haven't done much had a nice roast dinner and then watched an array of aeroplanes which have been flying over us all afternoon from the local air display.http://www.abingdonairandcountry.co.uk/