The Ingoda is a pleasant, small river with a brisk flow and a bottom of sand and gravel in the parts I saw.
With the exception of Plyos, a pleasant provincial river town, all are steeped in Russian history, linked to towering figures like Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Nicholas II, the last czar.
For most of them, from a rural background, the sight of European cities such as London, Brighton and Paris must have been inspiring: "What beautiful cities, pleasant gardens, rivers, streams, houses, shops, roads, carriages, cows, horses, fowls, ducks.
It's a pleasant ride along the river -- no traffic lights, quiet and clean.
After three hours of pleasant paddling, the river leaves the pilot channel and spreads out, growing warm, shallow, and brushy.
The aptly named Potwell Inn is situated in pleasant countryside by a river.
It was a beautiful summer evening: seventy-five degrees, according to the Watchtower clock, across the river, and pleasant.
On that first night, we made camp on a pleasant bend in the river with a white gravel beach framed by towering gray walls.
Inner tubes, rafts, canoes and kayaks can be rented seven miles to the south at the Bucks County River Country in Point Pleasant, Pa., across the river from New Jersey.
The trip along the river is pleasant, passing the lovely, large Moreton Bay figs and poinsiettas that line the banks and Brisbane's waterfront properties – all new-looking and gleaming glass in the sunlight.
