Downstream

you expend so much energy
fighting the cold, just being in
it is tough, you need to keep
moving. My mind was
focused but in the Thames
there is so much to look at,
the banks were lined with
hundreds of people, you go
through villages and towns,
people come out to have a
look. There’s a lot to see and
react to. But you don’t hear
so well in the water and it all
gets a bit dreamy. You get