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Yuletide 2024

The Yuletide Walk

It’s a beautiful city 2000 years old. I am not going to go into the geographical philosophy of ‘it’s two or three cities, City of London, Greater, Westminster, central etc’. London my home town, for better or worse, I love it. At this time of year, it’s not the sort to visit if you’re in a bad mood. It’s too busy with lots of complaining tourists, on social media, I saw a few posts relating to how unfriendly us Londoners are. This is not true, most of the visitors are tourists, who are trying to get from A to B and enjoy a trip to central London. I got lots of smiles, bumped into a few people and we both apologised, as you do. Not really the cold hearted lonely place you would expect.

The walk was roughly 12 miles in length, I started at Essex road station and headed to Tower bridge, to walk along the Thames. I ended up walking over the bridge to the south side and walked towards the Tate modern before crossing over to St Paul’s and walking along Paul’s walk. My destination was the tree at Trafalgar square and it didn’t disappoint. I tried to make my way to Oxford circus but the queue to get into the station was huge and I have no patience for that sort of thing. I walked back up Oxford street to centre point and then headed to Goodge street station and then home.


The Route



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Mersea Island

I finally returned to Mersea Island as I had promised myself, the last time was a couple of weeks before the first lock-down. This time though I managed to make it round the whole island in an afternoon during daylight, I do believe it has something to do with the time of the year. There were a couple of minors for this podcast, the first being the failure of the recording as I was walking round and you will here this on the podcast, the second , as I started recording my OS app stopped recording my journey and concentrated on the recording the ill-fated audio. Not deterred, however, I would say it was and excellent start to the new series of ‘hikenpod’ adventures.

Mersea Island has a beach called Monkey Beach, I love this place!

Why is there a ‘hikenpod’ episode being published here, well, it is unlikely anyone will listen to here, as my site is really only for me and secondly this is a short blog as well, so this is how I get away with it. I will not be making a habit out of the cross over.

Thank you for coming on the journey with me.



The Mersea Island Podcast – 4th February 2024

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Find me on these Islands… Again

Back again after an absence with this older concept. I visited two islands in Essex, Wallasea and Two Tree island. Here is a brief encounter. The weather was overcast to start off with then brightened up in the afternoon, once I reached Leigh on Sea.

Audio recorded on Tascam DR-40x

Video Filmed on a Motorola G31

Edited on FIlmora (Windows)

Audio Edited and published on OcenAudio and POPS OS (Linux)

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