Captain JP's log

The second leg of the Wandle Trail walk started at Morden Hall Park . This is a great place to start / end being a National Trust property ...

The start of my Wandle river walk was where it meets the Thames, as in the photo above. There used to be a half-tide weir here, but it was ...

This week, from October the 23rd to 31st, is London Rivers Week , and to celebrate that I'll be posting a description of a walk I did al...

The number one top priority of our age must be the environment. We see the heroic efforts of the likes of  Greta Thunberg to push reluct...

After the presentation of the SUP (stand-up paddleboard) Cup there was another lull but there was rather a lot of emergency service bo...

... and, apparently, an amphibious car.

This picture was taken in London on World Rivers Day (i.e. Sunday). Can you work out from it which direction the river is flowing? Fo...

The last few mornings London has been covered with a thick blanket of fog, causing the Thames Clipper to sound its horn as it felt its way...

This is Sloane Square tube station and there is something extraordinary about it: it has been built under a river. There are many rivers...

London used to be a thriving commercial port, but that was a long time ago now. It sometimes feels that there are no more working boats ...

There was only the shortest of times to explore the Danube River as it flows through Vienna, but we did walk across it on a pedestrian br...

Unlike the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery's Light Show , this display, also involving light, water and colour, but created by fuel ...

I was going to post a detailed description of tonight's GBBO (*) but this is meant to be a boating blog. Well, of sorts, anyhow. Any...