Thursday 11th July to Saturday 27th July- Newbury Thatcham was the first place we considered buying a house. Not too far from Newbury and good access all around. We looked at several houses there and found two we really liked. The second one was in a much better location with good access to the train station and closer to the town of Thatcham. That meant we had to explore Thatcham itself and see what we thought of the town. It turned out to be quite small, although it had numerous pubs and some basic shops including a Waitrose supermarket. Neither of us felt like it had enough going on to want to live there. We did do a mini pub crawl (pubs 8,9,10 and 11) but we only really liked one of them. Time to move on to Newbury. We use a Waterways guide to see what facilities are ahead, and had quickly found that Newbury (for some reason) doesn't have many facilities for boaters except for some good mooring. Facilities means places to dispose of both toilet waste (Elsan) or rubbish, as wel...
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