Reminder: June challenge

[nou]

Just a quick reminder that the June challenge starts soon.

Anyone got any plans firmed up yet? I’ve organised a date to do my regular bus challenge (i.e. I.c) with bob, and I'm planning to do the next stage in my bit-by-bit West Croydon to London Bridge walk (amended version of II.a) too.

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[dooriya]

I'm actually really excited since I now live in a city with an excellent bus system.

[nou]

Hurrah!

[fred_mouse]

I'm seriously thinking about trying a walk from one station to another along one of the train lines, but haven't worked out where I should aim for. Some of the gaps are Quite Large (there appears to be one that is 30km, based on this page), and I'm not sure whether there are bike/pedestrian paths between all of them. Possibly will go for one of the older lines, where the stations are quite close together, and see what I can see in terms of pretty buildings.

[nou]

Wow, yes, that would be quite a trek! I've only done this challenge within cities (London and Glasgow so far, and I have one planned for Bristol in August).

[fred_mouse]

*grin* technically, this is within the Greater Metropolitan Area, so within what the locals consider to be one city. :-}. These are commuter train lines, not the ones that are country trains.

(from here the land area of the Perth Metro area is 6,422 km^2)

[nou]

This made me curious about the definition of a metropolitan area, so I went looking on Wikipedia, and apparently London's metropolitan area is even bigger than Perth's! Our outlying stations are rather closer together though. Wikipedia says that on the Tube lines, the furthest distance between stations is the 6.26km between Chesham and Chalfont & Latimer, which is a reasonable walk (and indeed one I have done as part of tubewalks).

[fred_mouse]

I'm guessing (without having gone and looked at maps) that the London area is more densely populated? Here there are large areas within the metro area that are still bush, there are just trails of suburbs spreading out from a fairly concentrated centre.

[nou]

Greater London is generally very densely populated, but the metropolitan area reaches out beyond that, and it has that traily-suburby thing going on too. The green belt is a big part of why.

[fred_mouse]

Interesting. I wonder whether that Greater London aspect is why there is a 5 times the population density that we have (wikipedia tells me that the London Metropolitan Agglomeration has a population density of 1510 people per square kilometre and that Greater Perth has a mere 310).

..and my last assignment is due tomorrow night, so I'm starting to look at trying to do a proper walk. I did a surprise short walk in some of the Kings Park botanic gardens (wikipedia article here, didn't find a good map of it), but didn't think to take photos - may remember to write it up while I still remember where I went!

[nou]

I suspect so. Greater London itself is very densely populated, and getting more and more so by the year.

I hesitate to add to your to-read list, but Outskirts by John Grindrod is just out and looks very interesting (I haven't yet read it myself).

Hurrah for surprise walks! Would love to see a writeup if you get the chance.

[fred_mouse]

New plan is that I'm going to do a better/longer walk in Kings Park, because it occurred to me that there are large swaths I've never been in. Next Tuesday morning, with a plan for ~ 2 hours. And I will take a camera!

[fred_mouse]

In the end, there wasn't a good day for it, where health and energy/motivation and timing and weather lined up. Maybe another time.

[nou]

Ah, that’s a shame — but yes, another time!

[ridicully]

At one point in June I will be in Dublin. I shall attempt a beer glass walk there I think :D

[nou]

Yay!

[spiralsheep]

I have three walks lined up, all in new-to-me territory, unless various variables alter and I also find myself in Bristol or Evesham:

town trail in Tewkesbury,
straight lines in Penzance,
and left/right in Torquay (altogether now, "... herds of wildebeest...").

[nou]

Excellent planning there!