Length: approx. 6.0 km
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet: Lancaster
Gate Station (at
street level on Bayswater Road) at 18.30 hours.
Lancaster Gate is on the Central
Line in Zone 1, Paddington Station is a 5-minute walk away.
Finish: Whitehall, near Charing
Cross/Embankment & Westminster stations. All are in Zone 1.
Drop-Outs: Hyde Park Corner, Green Park or
St James’s Park tube stations, or buses.
Map-led, through Central London's extensive parks. With Kensington Gardens closing at dusk and off limits, we will explore Hyde Park in more detail than usual on this walk, then commence through Green Park and St. James’s Park.
Eat/Drink: Numerous options
around Westminster/Whitehall/Trafalgar Square.
For walk directions, map, photos and gpx/kml
files click here. T=short.19.a
1 comment:
Only 1 walker was there on time, but 4 others trickled in within a few minutes, ie n=5 on a w=warm-for-the-time-of-year evening, with clear skies and no wind.
We walked for a bit more than an hour through Hyde, Green and St. James's Parks, which were all near deserted, so quite eerie to walk through, and with lots of the grand buildings surrounding the parks well lit and providing for some fine scenery, to end on Whitehall, where the first pub was closed, the second one had all in-service tables occupied, but the third one (The Old Shades, a Young's pub) had tables available. So we enjoyed a meal and a few drinks. 2 then walked on to London Bridge/home.
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