Canal, River Thames, Goring

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=55 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The London HalfPints"><U><B><IMG SRC="0430e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daffs, Swan Pub, Streatley"><U><B><IMG SRC="0420e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>       </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>   </B><A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="London Trip 9 2009"><U><B><IMG SRC="0450e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=425 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfc3.jpg"> <div>  Canal, River Thames, Goring</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Two Photos</div> <div> <IMG SRC="8a16d480.jpg" border=0 width="877" height="584" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> On Wednesday we were off to Berkshire, to the twin towns of <A HREF="http://wikitravel.org/en/Goring_and_Streatley" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://wikitravel.org/en/Goring_and_Stre"><U>Goring-Streatley,</U></A> the former in Oxfordshire and the latter in Berkshire.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Cray" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Cray"><U>Goring</U></A> has shops, pubs and the station, whilst <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streatley,_Berkshire" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streatley,_"><U>Streatley</U></A> has pubs.  Either town would serve me well!  This is the Thames, well above</div> <div> London, and part of the canal that allows boats to navigate.  We are on the bridge that joins the two towns and counties.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="8a379500.jpg" border=0 width="889" height="592" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.swanatstreatley.co.uk/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.swanatstreatley.co.uk/"><U>The Swan, Streatley</U></A>, is a beautiful riverside hotel, spa and restaurant/pub.  We stopped here twice for refreshments.  It is a very</div> <div> fancy place.  Deb made use of their free wi fi.  Later in the afternoon we would be atop the lovely hillside seen in behind.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>