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.
