We finally received the phone call we’ve been waiting for

After promising ourselves not to be impatient, and after coming home from Mayday celebrations, we were ready to spend the day at home doing chores. But, joy oh joy, we got a phone call from Tooley’s to let us know that our boat is ready.

So, off we went. We didn’t have much to take with us for our 10-week trip, because we’d kitted out Galveston  with all the clothes we need a couple of weeks ago already. And earlier this week we went to Banbury to do the last-minute food shopping, just to then find out that the boat wouldn’t be ready for a few days yet. So the only thing we had to take was a couple of chill bags of food, our phones, laptops, and very little else.

It was a very low-key departure for an adventure we’d been looking forwards to for months.

In Banbury we first had to take the boat down stream to turn her round, so after two hours we were back to where we’d started. By then it was late afternoon, but we were determined to at least get out of Banbury on our first day. A couple of hours later we decided it was time to stop. The sun was still shining, we were opposite a field of cows, we’d left Banbury behind us, and a chilled bottle of white and a simple supper beckoned.

After dinner we sat on deck for a while and watched bats fly all around us, before going to bed ridiculously early.