How to drink your way down the Thames

We slipped away from Penton Hook, Britain’s largest inland marina, optimistically fringed with palm trees. A 10 minute walk away looms Thorpe Park, where, for £66 a head (provided you clear 1.2 metres), you can be inverted, soaked, and momentarily relieved of your soul. It’s a curious edgeland, where G-force yields to a neat, nautical […]