I’d organised to meet some friends out for dinner at the Compleat Angler (pictured below) at at Marlow, one of the locations I worked at early last year. Although terribly inconvenient for commuting on daily basis, I could definitely see some of the beauty about coming out on a weekend and this was the first time I truly got to enjoy it. I think it helped that I visited last weekend when stunning summer hit all of the UK.

Funnily enough little towns like this don’t change too much. The town still had it’s little high street filled with a mish-mash of high street chains and the more boutique shops one would expect from a town like Marlow. I’m glad to see the local bakery/cake shop that proved particularly popular with the retired folk still operating. Although I arrived their quite late, it was nice to see the park was still ever busy and full of life.

One strange thing we did notice were the swarms of insects flying around the sky. They seemed to be particularly attracted to dark (or maybe it was the warmth of) objects since we saw a black car’s hood literally covered in them. We managed to catch one early on and although we didn’t really know what it was at the time, I guessed it to be a Mayfly (mainly because they sounded British, I didn’t know what one was but they just seemed like it).

Looking at the wikipedia entry and pictures, I think my guess was a good one.

We had a fantastic dinner at Bowaters restaurant in the Compleat Angler, and ended up with this spectacular view (above) on the way home!