Walking in London!

Due to a lack of discretionary funds, Matt and I do a lot of walking around London, both to save Tube money and because London is a really nice town to walk around in. Last Saturday, Matt wanted to go to the Tate Modern museum to see that house that was in the previous post. So we walked. It was a beautiful sunny day, with a bit of a crisp wind. Perfect walking weather. Here is a map of our walk:



Using this website Matt's aunt Bev told him about, called Gmaps-Pedometer, we discovered this is a little over 4 miles, not a bad walk for a Saturday morning.

London is great for walking because there is always something to see within walking distance, and in between, there's lots of beautiful stuff, because most of the stuff in the city that isn't modern dates from the Victorian or Georgian era. On this walk alone, which is into a less pretty part of central London called "The City of London" aka "the City", we saw the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, the Millenium Bridge, Tate Modern, the Thames river walk, Somerset House (a palladian mansion, now a set of museums) and various squares, etc. With so much loveliness around you can see why walking is a great British tradition.