Evening, Monday 30 July. We meet with Richard Bailey, Venetian boat rower and City Barge Rowing Club Standing Captain, for a journey on the river.

Rob La Frenais, curator and avid sculler,  joins us for a lesson in Venetian rowing. Unfortunately before the trip starts, Rob loses his reading glasses in the river. All attempts to fish glasses from the river bed were unsuccessful.

Richard took us on a trip in a Venetian sandalo boat – “Serena”. He rowed up the Thames and then up the Cherwell river, alongside Christ Church Meadow and Oxford’s Botanic Gardens.