Hey Peter, I am not talking about my and your beloved Avon.
You know what I am talking about.
And by the way the Avon and Stour are in Wessex, the West country, NOT the South.
Actually I stopped next to the Thames near Henley yesturday to offload some NH3 flavoured H2O (as you do on a long trip) and I was quite disappointed with what I saw.
The Thames these days looks like a blinking large canal between locks. Totally unbarbelly. No fast runs over gravel, nor fronds of streamer weed.
And the bluddi M25. It took me over 1 1/2 hours to get from the A1 junction to the M4 junction. And that is only a few miles in Africa terms. And that wasn't during the rush hour.
I really feel for you people who live there.
Rotherham is paradise compared with this balls-up.
You may have money, but money will not buy you space in this area.