It’s the end of an era! This is my last weekend living in Maidenhead before I move closer to work in Uxbridge. I moved into this flat a whole six years ago, as this blog documented. Quite sad to be leaving. :-(

Anyway on Saturday I thought I’d go for a final wander in the environs and follow the Thames Path to Henley. For a while I was a bit obsessed with walking sections of the Thames Path, but I never managed to finish it. Partly because I discovered the countryside it passes through is a whole lot more interesting than the river itself.

It was brutally hot, perhaps one of the hottest days of the year so far. In the morning I came across some cows cooling off in the river between Cookham and Bourne End. Something about the scene seemed vaguely familiar, and when I checked my photos from the first time I walked this route in 2009 there was a paddling cow in almost the same spot! This is the solitary 2009 cow:

Cow

And this is possibly the same brown cow in 2015 now with friends and a little bit downstream!

Thames Path