Length: 5 km
Ascent: none
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hour
Meet: 18:30 at Westminster Tube Station at street level, by the only exit across the street from the Clock Tower
(containing Big Ben), with Westminster Bridge to the left.
Finish: London Bridge Station
Easy walk along the South Bank of the Thames,
taking in the Southbank
Winter Market and Winter
by the River, further along between London Bridge and Tower Bridge
(then walk back to London Bridge, or take a bus). There will be food and drink
stalls (including an apres-ski themed bar), knick-knacks, no doubt any amount of tacky Christmas
gear but maybe also some useful and tasteful stuff, Stone Curling lanes and much more.
*) Winter by the
River closes early on Heiligabend (Christmas Eve), which is why we are walking this the day before.
For a map, gpx/kml files, height
profile and walk directions, click here .
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Depending on progress, at the end we could nip across Tower Bridge to the St. Katherine Docks Christmas Market (closes at 20.00 hours though): https://www.skdocks.co.uk/events/st-katharine-docks-christmas-market/
n=8 assembled at one of six (!) exits of Westminster tube station (note to walk poster) on a w=cold-but-clear evening.
We kind of barged our way through the throng of tourists hogging space on Westminster Bridge and along the following stretch of the Thames Path past the London Eye. The following Southbank Winter Market was mainly food stalls and bars and not very interesting for that, but here - just as all along the route - it was still a nice walk, what with all the lit and decorated buildings.
In the bottleneck that is the path under the Hungerford Pedestrian Bridges we unfortunateky lost one walker and then strode on to the Winter by the River bit near London Bridge. This had a bit more of a Chrismassy atmosphere to it and the paths there are wider as well. All in, more pleasant.
At Tower Bridge by 19.40, we decided to cross the bridge and check out the St. Katherine Dock market, which wasn't much more than a handful of stalls really. But the docks were splendidly decorated and a very fine sight indeed. Off to The Dickens Inn then for dinner (6 of us).
A fine end to this year's Evening Walk Season.
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