Because it's frustrating, annoying, funny, challenging, embarassing and satisfying all at the same time. You are guaranteed comedy, even when you can't row and your lovely lovely is laughing at you banging into punts and other rowers or thinking of ways to sink American and Italian tourists who have no river etiquette. A great, great day out.
The Cherwood Boathouse: Bardwell Road, Oxford;
tel: 01865 515 978;
email: Email: info@cherwellboathouse.co.uk;
www.cherwellboathouse.co.uk/punt.html
Updates
There is punting at Magdalen Bridge, there is punting off Bardwell Road; unless space has warped Oxford a lot in the 20 years since I left, they are not the same.
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