Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 05, 2006 at 13:33:20 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: CC w/o a map posted by Jock on March 04, 2006 at 21:15:00:
Yes - but the changes are on land mainly away from the water. From the river most of the scenery is still quite recognisable as the scenes described by AR.
What I fancy AR wouldn't like is not so much the changes in geography but the changes in the rivers themselves. Where they were once crystal clear they are now as cloudy as soup, where once there was one Margoletta they are now there in their hundreds.
All is not lost. The rivers are wonderfully quiet about now, when there are few hire boats out, and even in high summer you can avoid them if you keep away from the honey pots. Increasingly the Hullabaloos go on package tours instead. And the rivers can and will go back to their old clarity, although it will take time. The upper Thames which 20 years ago was just as bad is now crystal clear.