Sunday 14th July 2024
We spent today in and around St Ives, mid morning we wandered into town heading for Holt island a nature reserve, on the way we passed a group of enthusiasts with their scooters.
We walked onto the nature reserve which is an island in the Great Ouse albeit only a few metres off shore. It is home to the local sea scouts and they have their own area of the island sectioned off for their hut, a camping area and their boats. Most of the island regularly floods and so there is a raised walkway that leads you around the island, it is a haven for many bird species.
We wandered back into town and had lunch in the Taproom before returning to the vans for the afternoon where we spent some time outlining a future long distance trip in two months time.
We had booked a boat trip on the river at 6 pm and along with a few other people from the rally site we cruised up the river.
As we cruised quietly along in the electric powered boat we could see a hot air balloon in the distance.
On our return journey the flight of the balloon and our boat seemed to merge as the balloon got lower and lower and crossed the river.
The ballon’s appearance bought an additional hint of magic to our trip.
Sadly that magic couldn’t continue as on our return we watched England lose the European Cup Final 2-1 to Spain.
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