Tim, a trip up the Wye is worth it some pics below of a trip I took up there a few weeks back.
The Severn Bridge (new one) and also Chepstow Castle.
There is a pub a couple of miles up with a pontoon which is useful.
Just don't do what I did last time and try making small stones out of large boulders using your prop by going to far up it and forgetting to keep a close eye on the sounder
Is that:-
Drink scrumpy
Fall over,
Run aground on mudbank in the Severn,
sink in mud,
catch communicable disease from said mud
Drink more scrumpy,
Listen to Wurzels CD at full volume (they are from Pill...)
Fall over again
Repeat in random order
Actually, it's not far off a Solent do and if you substitute sodding great spiky rocks for mudbanks the Cornish ribsters would feel at home too...
Scrumpy is great and can turn a sh1t day into quite a good one.... I know this cause I had three pints after I minced my prop on the bottom of the Wye!
Hard to believe the castle was built in 1067 - imagine William the Conqueror's ghost staring down and seeing a RIB - wonder what he would have thought??? Probably "What a load of Merde - those tubes would never stand up to some arrows"!!!
