A Paddle Adventure: Cricklade to Lechlade
With the Thames just down the road and some stand-up paddleboards ready to hire, it didn’t take much convincing to get a group of us onto the water for a day. We’d been watching Ed Pratt’s Source to Sea series and figured… how hard could it be, right? Our mission: paddle 18km from Cricklade to Lechlade. Getting Set Up Our adventure started in classic style — almost according to plan. We were meant to have four boards, but only three were actually available when we arrived. Luckily, the carpark near Cricklade had just enough wiggle room between the bollards to squeeze the cars through. A few hundred meters from the river, it made for an ideal launch spot: spacious, easy to access, and a handy wooded area nearby for getting changed. ...