Regent's Canal redux

[ridicully]

I've been doing a lot of walking lately. But mostly in the countryside, so I was more a rambler than a flaneur. But while getting those pictures posted, I found the photos from my walk along Regent's Canal - in April. Ooops.

In April, when I had just found this community, I got it into my head that I wanted to walk the whole of Regent's Canal. I'd done parts of it before but I'm a completionist at heart so I wanted to do it all.
So I used one of the first sunny days to do just that. Limehouse Basin to Paddington Basin.

It was a fun walk

of roughly 14km of locks, bridges and a few tunnels...

Obviously I couldn't start at Limehouse, because the canal connects to the Thames. So, DLR to Westferry and walk to the starting point. I don't argue with my brain any more, I just follow instructions.

Starting out somewhere in the Docklands.

The locks are numbered, so just right of here lies lock number 13 - Limehouse Basin Lock

Limehouse Basin. Admire the DLR train and marina.

Lock number 12. The tow path starts here.

There's bits of the path that are quiet.

Others are more busy.

And then there is Camden...
Random bits of art all along the way:

People live on the canal

Use it for practicing ... something

Taking breaks

And training

Parts are a bit gritty.

Others rather posh

All in all, just

really, really

fun.

Comments

[spiralsheep]

Lovely photos. Thank you for sharing. You've made it look a very tempting walk. I keep thinking about doing the Thames Path through central London but that'd take me 4-5 days whereas I could walk the Regent's Canal in a day.

[gominokouhai]

The last-but-one time I was in That London I did the stretch from Paddington to Camden Lock. It's a lovely stretch of water and your pics capture the variety of it very well. Thanks for posting, it raised a smile.