Downstream

don’t know. But it’s
comforting; it’s a community
of swimmers.’
A couple of miles
downriver is Maidenhead,
which, unlike Marlow, has a
long river-racing tradition and
a club that was formed in
Victorian times. This was
once ‘the haunt of the river
swell and his overdressed
female companion’,
according to Jerome K.
Jerome, and ‘the witch’s