London in 50 Walks

One of the birthday presents that Jackie bought for me was a box of London City Walks. Picture below.

Inside the box there are 50 cards, each with a relatively short walk mapped out on one side and a description of the sites you will see on the walk on the other side.

Walk #49

Last weekend we decided to tackle walk Number 49, Kennington - which is a suburb not too far from where we live. We caught the bus from Balham as it is cheaper and also gives you the opportunity to see the sites along the way, whereas with the tube it's more expensive and you're underground the whole time so don't get to see the sites. Fortunately there is a bus (#155) that would take us pretty much to the start of the walk.

I've tried to include a map of the walk that we did.


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We got off the bus in Elephant & Castle, an odd name for a suburb and not a particularly nice suburb, just a bit dirty and run down. Although there is a very tall new building in the middle of Elephant and Castle which is quite out of place.

There wasn't a anything of particular note in the first part of our walk along Blackfriars Road. There was Valentine Place, which was photo worthy given it was the day before Valentines Day.

At the end of Blackfriars road with the pub The Ring at which point we turned in to The Cut, not long into The Cut we turned off the official walk to a backstreet so I could show Jackie a bar and restaurant I'd went to, in the same lane there was a Turkish cafe which was open so we went in and got a coffee, feta and leek bread thing, kind of like a pide and a piece of yummy carrot cake. They had lots of yum looking salads and other bread things which all looked great so we think we'll go back there one time for lunch.

After this pit stop we carried on along The Cut, past the Young Vic theatre, which we've been to once and then on to the Old Vic theatre at which Kevin Spacey is the Artistic Director.

 On from The Cut we moved to Lower Marsh Road behind Waterloo Station, at the beginning of this street is the bar Cubana, in which Fidel Castro is rumoured to be an investor.

We had lots of different views of the London Eye in between buildings as we walked around, below is one of the views...

On a bit further we turned into Waterloo road and past Lambeth North Tube station which was closed along with some roads with quite a few police around, we later found out that someone got hit by a bus around here which we assume was the reason for the commotion.

On a bit further and we got to the Imperial War Museum which I convinced Jackie we should pop in and see. It was busy but worth the look, took quite a few photos but have included just one below

After the War Museum we took a kind of short cut without realising it back to our bus which took us right back to Du Cane Court. 

Walk #49 done, 49 more to go!