Downstream

Calais opposite. Actually it’s
Snodland on the Isle of Grain,
you can see the chimney.’
Then I ask him where the
Thames ends. He points
behind me, in the direction of
the North Sea. ‘The Thames
ends where it ends, when it
becomes the sea, it ends.’
And when does it become the
sea? He gets up a little
wearily and traces a finger
along a map on the wall. ‘I’ve
been all round the coast and I