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Oooh, I thought I was the only person who was interested in urban hiking. I got into the habit because of my insomnia, actually - I started going for longer and longer walks because there's something magical about cities in the wee small hours and you might as well enjoy the night if you can't sleep through it. I've had a lingering desire for years now to walk across London west to east, following the flow of the Thames. Calling the boundary at the M25 on either side, that's a distance of about 60km as the crow flies, but ideally I'd like to follow the Thames itself which adds at least 10-20 km. So definitely a three to four day trip minimum, especially since the idea is to take it fairly easy and stop off at anything interesting I find on the way. The idea of spending up to even a week just meandering through the city with the river is really appealing. My goal is to do a continuous journey and stay at b&bs etc. so it would be mostly daytime walking (although the temptation to jump on the tube home in the evenings is probably gonna be overwhelming.) What I'd really really really love to do is walk the whole Thames from Thames Head to the North Sea but it's like 345km long so that's a bit of a commitment. small ghost fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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learnincurve posted:I live down the road from where two railway lines used to connect (and were then abandoned after the beeching report) and we walk along the old lines, which at points are linked into the chesterfield and Worksop canal paths so you could probably even walk to Liverpool or London from here with absolute minimal car interference. Definitely take some pics, I love abandoned railways
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