Nightingale pindah dari rumah keluarganya di Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, ke Burlington Hotel di Piccadilly. Namun, ia terkena demam, yang disebabkan oleh Bruselosis ("demam Krimea") yang menyerangnya selama perang Krimea. ...
We went through the Fenny Compton 'Tunnel' - a former tunnel with the top removed to make it just a narrow cutting - and managed to make it to the Claydon flight of locks by the middle of the afternoon. .... so unfrequented by non-boating pedestrians; and, if you get as close to Maidenhead Bridge as you can, there is a petrol station with a cash machine, two hotels with bars, a Thai restaurant and a Chinese restaurant (both doing takeaway) all within five minutes' walk. ...
