Thursday 15 June 2017

Thursday June 15 - A day in the life of Henley

Today was the last full practice day for HWR.  Weather again beautiful, but more breezy today.  I thought it would be informative to show you some of the sights from a typical day here.
While there a great many lovely cafes and shops, Costa and Starbucks are the only spots open early enough for us to grab "filter coffee" or latte.  Today, Starbucks was calling us...
Down the steps in our narrow English house

Out and about early on the bikes

First stop.....Starbucks 

It's Thursday...Farmers Market at Town Square

Boat meeting before morning practice

The eight practicing...

Whilst coaches watch...

Remenham Farms adjacent to river
On the route back through town after morning practice - I do believe our women have visited here!
Garden at the coach's house for a bite of lunch


Mounting up for afternoon practice....


Down Queen Street....

Across Henley Bridge to the Berkshire side....


Plenty of traffic here ... the next closest bridge is upriver in Sonning

Down the Thames Path at Henley Royal boat tents....

Past the Henley Royal Enclosure - the HWR event is excluded from this venue...

Continuing down the Thames Path...

Past the mansion ....
Over the arched footbridge....


Arriving at the HWR venue across from Fawley

Boat storage


Launching for afternoon practice

A few of the pubs around town - there are a great many here  The Argyle

The Queen Victoria

Waitrose Supermarket where we seem to visit at least once per day

Yes there is a Dr Who phone booth - mostly for tourists I think



New cafe called Spoon - lovely - great sweets and lattes

The local Bakery


Preparing for the Foreign Crew Reception at the Henley River and Rowing Museum!


Ready for the start of racing tomorrow!

End to a busy day - 930PM


Coach Pat

2 comments:

  1. Love the team photos! Thank you for the update and best of luck with the races!
    GO WPI!!!

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