I hate London Bridge Station. Whenever I go there it's either to go see a doctor about something medical, so I'm probably sick and/or in pain; or I'm heading to visit friends South of the River and this is my second change and third train. (Any northside Londoner will tell you the South may as… Continue reading London Bridge Station
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Walk the Lines (5 or 28 or The Final)
The day after our Heathrow walk dawned fine, and our legs were not particularly sore or achy. We had discussed it the day before but all the signs combined correctly to confirm it. "Let's do this," we agreed. "Let's walk the last stretch today and finish this thing." And so it was, around 9 a.m.… Continue reading Walk the Lines (5 or 28 or The Final)
Walk the Lines (4 or 27)
The last of our long walks and it's a strange one: we are walking out to Heathrow airport.Yes you read that right. Walking. To. An. Airport. However before we see the hallowed halls of Heathrow terminal 4, we have to start somewhere more familiar, like Acton Town. But this time we are not partaking of… Continue reading Walk the Lines (4 or 27)
Walk the Lines (3 or 26)
Three more walks to go and we're done. We really want to get this finished so a week after our long hot nightmare walk to Uxbridge, we are up early again and riding the Tube out to Watford to finish the Met line. Watford station I always think of the Tube as something very London;… Continue reading Walk the Lines (3 or 26)
Walk the Lines (2 or 25)
We've walked the lines in many different weathers (the worst being our last walk of the District line, in darkness and pouring rain for an hour and a half, during which I discovered my waterproof jacket was actually not waterproof). But this was the hottest walking day we have ever had, with temperatures predicted to… Continue reading Walk the Lines (2 or 25)
Walk the Lines
We started walking the tube lines some years ago, after I read Mark Mason's book Walk the Lines. At that time I was doing long hours at work and on weekends I needed some exercise out in the open air to kick away the long stationary days. We started well in 2014, knocking off three… Continue reading Walk the Lines
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