Downstream

Cricklade Bridge, upstream
from Lechlade, but ‘there was
just enough water to cover the
top of our feet, I could see the
river meandering off, but we
didn’t want to walk the whole
of the first day dragging a
canoe’. Even when they
started swimming from St
John’s Lock on 24 August
‘there was no flow at all. But
we knew it was relatively
clean, in some parts it was
crystal clear, in others there