Cycling east on Regent’s Canal

We decided to head out for a ride today — weather seemed good (i.e. sun was actually detectable, no rain). Hit Regent’s Canal just after the Maida Hill tunnel, and just followed it along. Was a pretty easy ride, except for all the pedestrians — and Islington, where there’s another tunnel! (You wouldn’t guess it, but I think Angel tube is pretty much on top of the tunnel for the canal — strange, it’s so busy on top…) The bit around Camden Lock was also people-packed, so plenty of walking there. Actually, a large part of the journey was on foot…

Anyway, now that I’ve checked out Google Maps, we basically made it all the way to the Limehouse Basin — which is pretty much the Thames. We only turned around because of the tow-path works they were doing; we couldn’t see an easy way back to the canal, so we gave up. If only we’d gone a few hundred more meters! Oh well, next time. (There were a couple of places where we had to go onto the roads around the canal, they seem to be fixing up the towpath.)

So yes, it was probably a more exciting day out than when we headed out west — although that was pretty cool. We ended up doing 30km — which is pretty decent. I reckon we could probably actually get out of the London orbit if we went 30km (and it wasn’t a round trip.) Another highlight was stopping at the Broadway Markets somewhere in Hackney for lunch — they seemed like proper markets, and there was a nice atmosphere around.