Amazing ride along the tow path of the Grand Union/Regents Canal....and back to Richmond along the Thames. So much to see along the canal stretch and yet you'd never believe you were passing beneath or alongside busy London streets. A couple of places where the canal goes into tunnels so you have to come up to 'ground leveI' and do bits of the road but not too difficult getting back on track. Oh, and getting around Camden Lock and the canal side of the Market was interesting at 6.15 on a Friday evening!
The only disappointment was that the roads directly leading to the Olympic site where closed off so I couldn't get a close up view. A fellow cyclist told me the intention was to make the area really accessible for bike users in time for the big event. Look forward to it.
I wonder how many cyclists use this route to get across London?!
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| Ex Virgin Records abode |
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| Little Venice |
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| Regents Park |
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| Camden Lock |
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| Weird homes - Camden |
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| Heading East |
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| Olympic Stadium |
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| No through Road |
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| Towers old & new - near Mile End Park |
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| Limehouse Basin |
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| Oldest pub on the river - Wapping |
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| Looking west from Wapping Rose Garden |
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| I'm such a tourist! |
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| The Shard from Southwark Bridge |
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| New Blue Cycle Lanes - Millbank. I'm impressed...and what's more I feel safer! Route
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very impressive¡¡, the blog and the route, it is a lot in just 3 hours, with traffic and traffic lights. thank you for the idea, if I go to London I might go to the Pub and the Olympic stadium.
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