Ride Report

A lovely Wheelers river ride chasing singing ships last night. Rode to the magical Trinity Buoy Wharf - housing London's Last Lighthouse where the various ships were waiting to start their 1513 A Ships' - the star was the light ship - a floating lighthouse but the prima donna was the steam ship with her textured puffy sounds and steam, also part of the cast were tug boats and a clipper with her bell. After the first amazing aria the ships started up river and we followed along by bike - and joined them on the water at Canary wharf where we took the ferry to Rotherhithe Hilton from whence we hugged the Thames path and cycled with ships chugging silently along to our right. We reached Tower Bridge exactly at the same time as the ships - indeed they arrived a tad earlier and sort of waited for us and for the bridge to open and let them through. At the bridge they performed their second magnificent aria joined by the Belfast and her cannons and other ships. This part of the opera lasted about an hour after which we waved the ships away as they sailed past back to where they came from.
Thanks for the magical river night.