Day 1 Saturday, walking from the source to Cricklade

This entry is only going to be quite short at the moment as I'm lying in bed on Monday morning doing it before we get on teh water at 07:30! Things have been taking longer than hoped so we're in for a very long day today.......

We got away a bit after schedule on Saturday morning, but soon found teh source - a stone inscribed 'The source of teh River Thames), under a tree at the edge of a field - and not a drop of water to be seen anywhere.

Unfortuately, my distances were wrong and we ended walking just over 12 miles instead of the 10 I expected, it took us 4 hours and we arrived at the pub at 2:30, the kitchen shuts at 2pm - oh dear. Thankfully Nigel Wynne is friendly with the landlord and we managed to get some lunch (is that because of teh time you spend there Nigel.

This will take you to the Motion Based site where you can view our route (and yes, I know we nearly went right round Cricklade):
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/invitation/accept.mb?senderPk.pkValue=6772&unitSystemPkValue=2&episodePk.pkValue=992242

You can get to Google Earth from the 'Digest' button, I may not have time to upload teh zip file.