The pandemic has curtailed my walking almost to zero: the 2019 Spring Bank Holiday weekend gave me more walking distance than the ten months since mid-February 2020. However, I have been walking, albeit sedentarily and in my mind, all year. I have been designing walks from 5km in length to 1500km in front of theContinue reading “Armchair walking”
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London Summits Walk, Capital C, and Hammersmith Bridge
Hammersmith Bridge is now completely closed: this includes the riverside paths beneath the bridge. The 133-year-old structure is showing cracks in its cast iron, and these cracks have widened in recent weeks. For this reason, the route of the London Summits Walk (section 8) has been diverted via Putney Bridge, adding a little over 2kmContinue reading “London Summits Walk, Capital C, and Hammersmith Bridge”
One ‘dam thing after another
I swapped London for Utrecht, Rotterdam and Dordrecht at the weekend. I spent three hours on Saturday at Fiets- en Wandelbeurs in Utrecht, a vast expo on walking and cycling. Since I’d finished my business there in one day, I had Sunday free (before commuting straight to work on Monday morning by plane, Tube and bus,Continue reading “One ‘dam thing after another”
A Ring around the Underground
For my next circuit of London, I decided to revisit a project started a few years ago, to put a ring around the Tube. Since my first musings on the subject, we have had Overground, TfL Rail (now out as far as Reading), DLR south of the river and trams, but the topology just doesContinue reading “A Ring around the Underground”
Getting out of town
After a fallow quarter, the early May bank holiday weekend gave me the first of the set of Get out of town! walks. The choice of the northern route was informed by which Tube and train routes were being disrupted. An early Saturday start (at 0730) gave me the luxury of Trafalgar Square and CoventContinue reading “Getting out of town”
