Today ended up being a bit truncated for a couple of reasons.
After breakfast in the clubhouse I decided to wander up to the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway. I was stiff after the last couple of days exertions but hoped to walk it off (I didn’t). It’s one of the smaller heritage railways but friendly and pleasant, operated as usual today by two 08 shunters, one at each end, which avoids the need to run round. The train up to Cholsey was fairly empty but as it’s a connection to the main line it filled up with Festival goers heading to Wallingford.
Once I’d had a look round their museum and shop, and had a coffee, I wandered to the nearest festival bus stop to ride up into the town. As the bus that was there was full I had to wait, but only about 15 minutes so not a problem*. I had a stroll round the site, and some lunch, then went over see what was happening at the second arena, the answer was not much! By this stage my left leg was getting very sore and the weather wasn’t great so I decided to get the bus back to the campsite.
I did have a secondary motive - both Scotland and England were playing in the Women’s World Cup! As expected they both had comfortable wins, England by their highest ever World Cup score despite the fact it was essentially their second team that started the match. Plaudits do go to Samoa though, a part time team who’d mostly had to take leave from their jobs were always going to struggle but they played their hearts out, they may have only scored one penalty but it got the biggest cheers of the afternoon!
Unfortunately the one act I wanted to see on the main stage, The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, start at 21:30, the last bus back to the campsite is at 22:00, there’s no way I can risk walking back so I’m having to miss them. It’s raining quite heavily anyway.
*A couple of people in the queue were quite impressed by the fact my compact 3-wheel Walker has a seat - one of the rails I’m using it is I can sit down when in queues and the like.
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