between the towers

Because I've always wanted to, I'm going to walk the Coast To Coast walk in May. (Well, most of it.) And I'm doing some little walks about town to get in practise, and because I like the odd bits of London you find it you devise a walking scheme that takes you away from the usual routes. (And because, as was pointed out to my this week, these pointless/pointful walks seem like prototypical unproduct.)

Today's jaunt was a round-trip from the BT Tower to Tower Bridge and back again, North side of the river first, South side second. There's a little flickr set here.

It was a good walk, served up some of the randomness one associates with walking in London, but it was a bit on the beaten track. Not as meandering as previous excursions such as anti-clockwise around the congestion zone, BT Tower to Gherkin, all the way up the Edgware Road or from The Sark to The Dome.

Good though. Good way to explore somewhere you thing you know.

Comments

[Tom P]

You'll love the C2C; for all the reasons that still just about makes Britain Great. Make sure take Alfred Wainwright's guide book (www.wainwright.org.uk) to fill you in on the history, great hand drawn maps & irreverential stories. I guarantee you'll be humming Jerusalem before the end...

[hugh macleod]

Heh. That photo of the BT tower reminds me of my VERY FIRST job interview out of college, at Saatchi's. This would be early 1989. Didn't get the job in the end, but I remember looking up at the tower afterwards...

Ummmm.... I was hoping to attend this Friday's Breakfast Club in Soho, if I'm allowed. May I ask, what's the form for signing up?

My email is gapingvoid@gmail.com

Thanks =)

[ally]

what a wonderful set of walks. just the london ones mind. the coast to coast thing is far too far. you'll catch your death, or something. and there'll be countryside, and things that eat you.
i'm really looking forward to trying your drawing a line between places thing as often as possible.
lovely stuff.
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