September challenge: the details

[kake]

OK! So I mentioned there would be another Flâneurs challenge, and here it is.

The instructions for the June challenge were relatively complicated, so I decided to do a simpler one this time.

To participate in the September challenge:

• Leave a top-level comment on this post, stating the name of the city/town you'll be doing your challenge in. (You can leave more than one comment if you want to walk in more than one place.)
• Wait for September, during which time hopefully other community members will reply to the comment as described below, giving you a selection of starting points for your walk.
• Once it's September, pick one of the starting points you've been given, do a walk of any length or type starting from that point, and report back.

To help others complete their September challenge:

• Choose one of the top-level comments on this post which contain the name of a town/city.
• Use an atlas, online map, etc, to select a starting point within that town/city. You can choose a point that you think will result in a pleasant walk, a challenging walk, a walk that's likely to produce a report that you'll find interesting, any criteria you like.
• Leave a comment specifying your chosen point, and optionally the criteria you used to choose it.

Comments

[kake]

London (UK) for me, please!

[spiralsheep]

If you haven't already: the Round Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Church

*is intrigued*

[rydra_wong]

London (UK) for me too, please.

Re: *is intrigued*

[spiralsheep]

I don't know your walking habits so one in central London and one further out.

The Soane Museum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Soane's_Museum

http://www.soane.org/

The Crystal Palace dinosaurs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs

[spiralsheep]

Hereford, please.

(Lesser known and personal points of interest are especially welcome as I'll try to visit more than one suggestion if com members provide them.)

[kake]

Two suggestions:

(a) The cider museum, because cider is delicious.

(b) Wherever the bus to Much Dewchurch departs from, because that's where my first girlfriend lived.

[existence]

Anywhere in the San Francisco Bay area that is reachable by BART is fine by me. San Francisico if I need a default city.

[existence]

(*or connected transit, but!)

[sporky_rat]

Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (I promise to stay hydrated!)

[trouble]

Longleaf Trace! http://www.mylongleaftrace.com/

[cxcvi]

Ooooh, interesting...

Bristol, UK

Bristol, UK

[pne]

Start in St Anne's Park and explore that "peninsula" bit between the railway line and the river.

[cxcvi]

Also, since I suspect that I'll be there at least once during September:

Cardiff, UK

[trouble]

In the city or outside of it?

[trouble]

Toronto, Ontario, Canada!

Please note that I can only walk in areas that have sidewalks, as I walk with my husband and he is a full-time wheelchair user. So, within the city. Also, since we just moved here, EVERYWHERE is new!

[kake]

Toronto Chinatown :)

Wikipedia tells me that it's "centred on the intersection of Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue", and Google Streetview shows me sidewalks there, so that seems a good choice.

[helenorvana]

Las Vegas, NV - I've done all the Red Rock Canyon and Mt. Charleston trails, so anywhere else :P

[kake]

Somewhere in the rectangle formed by W Lone Mountain Road, N Decatur Blvd, W Craig Road, and N Jones Blvd (Google Maps) — because the roads there are sufficiently non-grid-like to please a Londoner like me :)

many places!

[bob]

many places since im currently travelling and mutliple comments seems painful for the amount :)


San Francisco, USA (Least likely since ill only be there for a day in september but still i have nothing else planned)

LA, USA

Dunedin, NZ

Gore, NZ

Invercargill, NZ ( I may not make it here)

Auckland, NZ (I need to check the timings on this)

Re: many places!

[apatheia_jane]

If you want a challenge in Dunedin, Baldwin St is officially recognised as the steepest street in the world.

The Octagon seems a good starting point. Spin & pick a direction!

[apatheia_jane]

Perth, Western Australia. Any starting point on main roads within a 90min drive range of CBD also fine, as I wouldn't mind taking my motorbike out for a Sunday ride, & that's about as long as I cope with my bike seat. But metro totally fine too.

[kake]

Barrack Square. Because it used to be a tram terminus connecting with a ferry service.

[triadruid]

Kansas City, Missouri (actual city is preferable, but metro area will do if you have a good one).

[spiralsheep]

I don't know Kansas City at all so I tried googling for several keywords. I don't know if it meets your criteria for walkability but this is the furthest from cliche I could go in a few minutes of googling:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanneorla/1486318914/in/set-72157602262724664 (the whole set of images is interesting imo)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_and_Vine-Downtown_East,_Kansas_City

[marymac]

Newbie delurk: Belfast, UK, please.

[spiralsheep]

My obsession with industrial archaeology let me show you.... ;-)

Any of the following chimneys, either a walk-past or the best view of them (e.g. across water):

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2409831

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2507456

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2390181

[azuire]

Tokyo, Japan. Everywhere is easily reachable by train & I have a concession pass, no worries [excited]

Tokyo

[pne]

Ark Towers West (Minato-ku, Roppongi 1-chome): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=35.666229,139.7403&ll=35.666135,139.741255&spn=0.003574,0.006968&sll=53.553813,9.991586&sspn=0.326664,0.51887&num=1&vpsrc=6&z=18

The first Tokyo address that comes to my mind, because an acquaintance of mine stayed there for a while :)

Alternatively, Roppongi 1-chome station, which is right next door.

[pne]

Hamburg, Germany.

(Or just outside - inside public transport ring C.)

[spiralsheep]

My usual method of navigating around middle European cities is to head for the most famous bakery and then work my way out from there. Sadly, while Hamburg has famous pastries, google has failed me on the bakeries. While I was searching, however, I found these....

Possibly too cliched but a good place to sit and eat pastries:

http://www.sandtorhafen.de/

Did you know that British engineer William Lindley sorted out the sewerage systems for several major European cities including Hamburg where he's remembered with both a statue and a street named in his honour (albeit an apparently rather dull street if the online images are anything to go by):

Wikipedia on the statue: "Lindley memorial is located in Hamburg near underground station Baumwall at the entrance to sewage system."

Wikipedia on the street: "The small 'Lindleystraße' in Hamburg's Rothenburgsort."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lindley#Memorials

[shuripentu]

Croydon!

Reposted to correct my spelling of "Dagnell"

[spiralsheep]

I'm going to assume you've already passed the 50p Building (No1 Croydon) so... music... (ignoring the BRIT School for being too obvious).

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, classical:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1169488 (childhood choir member at St Mary Magdelene, Canning Road, Addiscombe)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1466225 (lived at Dagnell Park, Selhurst)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1466227 (blue plaque on above house)

http://scouts1stbed.blogspot.com/2010/10/bandon-hill-cemetary.html (buried in Bandon Hill Cemetary)

Surrey Street, dubstep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey_Street_Market

[nanila]

London (UK) please!

[kake]

The southmost point of the Isle of Dogs — up to you whether you start by going through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel or not, but do note current closures.

[nanila]

And also Cambridge (UK).

[spiralsheep]

Well, obviously the best place in Cambridge is St Cedd's College... but it's a bit difficult to visit, heh:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Cedd's_College,_Cambridge

The Open University building Cintra House in Hills Road needs to be seen up close for full appreciation (Addenbookes Hospital, with its landmark tower is at the other end of Hills Road):

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/857992

Or there's Mill Road, with its arts connections (spot the giant mural on the railway bridge):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Road,_Cambridge

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahams__flickr/2550500517/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30101245@N07/2901626990/in/set-72157612265795993/ (there's a whole set of these linocuts of Mill Road)

[sanguinity]

Portland, OR

[kake]

Wikipedia tells me that Portland is good for (a) beer and (b) public transport, which means that I should probably visit it some day. Also that I have two (well, three) suggestions:

- Hair of the Dog brewery
- Either the westmost or the southmost stop on the Portland Streetcar route

[phi]

Cambridge, MA, USA please although anywhere MBTA connected in the greater boston area is also fine.

[kake]

Alewife Station. Because it's named after a brook that's named after a fish that's named after a type of publican. Also because it looks from the map as though a walk from there could have a couple of different characters, depending on whether you head into the green stuff or not.

[kabal42]

Copenhagen, Denmark

(First challenge, yay!)

[kake]

Am I allowed to choose somewhere in Frederiksberg? If so, then Domus Vista, because it's the tallest residential building in Denmark, and because enclaves are cool.

Otherwise, one of the milestones marking the sites of the four city gates — which of the four is up to you!

since this is probably my last chance before the weather warms up

[tree]

sydney (australia)

anywhere with public transport!

Re: since this is probably my last chance before the weather warms up

[kake]

The Chinese Garden of Friendship!