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Regents Canal: Camden to Little Venice
Last Friday evening, I gathered a few friends for a Regents Canal walk I've done several times oveer the years I've lived in London. It starts in Camden just north of the high street and ends in Little Venice at The Bridge House pub, and for a good deal of the walk it's easy to imagine that you're in the countryside rather than the centre of a densely populated city.
These canal barges appear near the end of the walk. Supposedly these are amongst the most expensive moorings in the city.
Only a couple hundred yards from the throngs on Camden High Street, you are already surrounded by tranquil greenery.
Round a bend a few hundred yards further is a pagoda. I believe this is a pub, but I've never been there - mostly because I've never figured out how to get to it apart from swimming across the canal.
Soon you reach London Zoo. My collection of reprobates are standing outside an aviary containing a large quantity of sacred ibis. The bloke would like me to point out that the fetching handbag he is holding is mine, not his.
Just beyond the zoo is the incredibly expensive collection of mansions known as St John's Wood, carefully fenced off from the canal path.
And nicely illustrating the truism that London is a city where the rich and the poor live cheek by jowl, the path next takes you through a housing estate.
Guardian geese and the Puppet Theatre on a canal barge in the heart of Little Venice.
If you time your walk right, you'll end up at the bridge next to the Bridge House pub just as the sun sets.
These canal barges appear near the end of the walk. Supposedly these are amongst the most expensive moorings in the city.
Only a couple hundred yards from the throngs on Camden High Street, you are already surrounded by tranquil greenery.
Round a bend a few hundred yards further is a pagoda. I believe this is a pub, but I've never been there - mostly because I've never figured out how to get to it apart from swimming across the canal.
Soon you reach London Zoo. My collection of reprobates are standing outside an aviary containing a large quantity of sacred ibis. The bloke would like me to point out that the fetching handbag he is holding is mine, not his.
Just beyond the zoo is the incredibly expensive collection of mansions known as St John's Wood, carefully fenced off from the canal path.
And nicely illustrating the truism that London is a city where the rich and the poor live cheek by jowl, the path next takes you through a housing estate.
Guardian geese and the Puppet Theatre on a canal barge in the heart of Little Venice.
If you time your walk right, you'll end up at the bridge next to the Bridge House pub just as the sun sets.